Rudy Giuliani demonstrates that loyalty trumps “family values” and possible criminal activity. Always.
Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.
The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims’ groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events.
“This man did unjust things, and he’s being protected and employed and taken care of. It’s not a good thing,” said one of the accusers, Richard Tollner, who says Placa molested him repeatedly when he was a student at a Long Island, N.Y. Catholic boys high school in 1975.
At a campaign appearance in Milwaukee last week, Giuliani continued to defend Placa, who he described to reporters as a close friend for 39 years.
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Tollner, now a mortgage broker in Albany, N.Y., says he was one of three people to testify about Placa.
“This man harmed children. He still could do it. He deserves to be shown for what he was, or is,” says Tollner.
Appearing publicly for the first time today on ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” Tollner says the abuse started when he and Placa were in the high school making posters for a Right to Life march.
“As he started to explain how these posters should be done, I realized that something was rubbing my body,” Tollner said. “After a minute or two, I realized that he’s feeling me, feeling me in my genital area.”
The grand jury report concluded that a Priest F, who Tollner says is Placa, abused the boys sexually “again and again and again.”
“Priest F was cautious, but relentless in his pursuit of victims. He fondled boys over their clothes, usually in his office,” the report said.
And this story isn’t even about Giuliani and his mob-connected pal Bernard Kerik.
I must have missed the part where Sandy Berger molested children. Cite?
If you were a frightwinger you’d understand. Berger stealing copies of secret documents is EXACTLY the same as a rightwinger molesting children. No difference at all.
I bet kids are scared to death of pkb. And with good reason.
Your reaction to Rudy Giuliani defending and dancing around with an accused pedophile is to bring up some idiotic Democrat from 20+ years ago. Okay.
Shorter pkb:
“I support child molestation.”
Good god, how the HELL did a convicted pedophile get on Giuliani’s staff?
Oh, not convicted, but ACCUSED.
You’re right. To compare an ACCUSED pedophile with an ADMITTED and CENSURED one (like Studds) or an CONVICTED and IMPRISONED (but commuted by Clinton) one (like Reynolds) is completely unfair. It’d be like comparing Sandy Berger to Karl Rove.
No, that’s not right, either. Karl Rove was never even indicted.
How about Sandy Berger with Ray Donovan?
“Where do I go to get my reputation back?”
J.
Shorter Zython:
“I reject the Constitution.”
So…accurately pointing out that you’re an apologist for a child molester is the same thing as rejecting the Constitution? Someone has an inflated ego.
Tsk tsk tsk. Poor pkb. Poor Jay. Why do you two hate America SO much?
Jay Tea: “Good god, how the HELL did a convicted pedophile get on Giuliani’s staff?
Oh, not convicted, but ACCUSED.
You’re right. To compare an ACCUSED pedophile with an ADMITTED and CENSURED one (like Studds)”
Congratulations, what you just said is actionable. And if you are too stupid to figure that out, what you just said is libel and you can be sued over it.
I think a retraction is in order.
Strowbridge, if you’re referring to my calling Placa “convicted,” I retracted it in the very next sentence. In brief, the whole “accusation” was a deliberate error to highlight that he had NOT been convicted.
As far as Gerry Studds… his censure is on the record. He took an underage page overseas, plied him with booze, and had his carnal way with him. He turned his back on the House when they voted — overwhelmingly — to censure him.
And once that was over, they welcomed him back with open arms, and eventually he was made chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Also, Studds is dead. it’s tacky to speak ill of the dead, but 1) there’s no law against being tacky, and B) truth is an absolute defense.
Placa has been accused by alleged victims. There is sworn testimony that incriminates him. But he was not indicted, let alone tried and convicted. He was not proven guilty, so therefore in the eyes of the law he is innocent.
Retraction, Strowbridge? Nah. “Clarification,” as you obviously didn’t understand what I said the first time, but I don’t see anything I need to retract.
J.