A HIGH-POWERED financial consultant at the Atlanta offices of Merrill Lynch & Co.-through his friendship with the parents of slain beauty princess JonBenet Ramsey-has become entangled in the shadowy world of Internet web sleuths. But he appears to be fighting back with a federal suit to unmask an unknown Web writer.

Rod Westmoreland, senior vice president and head of the Westmoreland Group at Merrill Lynch here, has been the subject of numerous Web postings by the Internet’s anonymous armchair detectives. John Ramsey sought Wesmoreland’s help in the first hours after JonBenet’s 1996 disappearance to secure a $118,000 ransom that was to have been used to rescue his daughter from alleged kidnappers.

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