How many hundreds of lawyers helped enable and cover-up the catholic church’s crimes (and those by other churches enabling rape/pedophilia) over the decades and for how much money?
How many of theses lawyers were/are pedophiles/rapists? Have any been disbarred?
And how many lawyers helped/help cover-up crimes by the oil & gas industry and illegal frac’ers like Ovintiv/Encana/Cenovus (spawned after Ernst lawsuit filed)?
8 questions for Attorney General Josh Shapiro on the election, fracking and Trump lawsuits by Michael Machosky, November 19, 2020, Next Pittsburgh
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What do you consider your most important accomplishments as Attorney General?
I’d have to say, first and foremost, exposing the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church. That led to hundreds of predator priests abusing thousands of children in a conspiracy and cover-up that went from the Pennsylvania diocese all the way to the Vatican. That work we did not only gave survivors their voice back, and shared their truth, but led to a global reckoning — where the Pope acknowledged the truth of what we uncovered. Where the 22 state attorneys general launched investigations modeled after ours. And where the Pope convened a global summit to deal with these issues, of child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church. I’m very proud of my team and our office for that work.
To name another, the work we did to finally resolve what had really become a crisis between Highmark and UPMC. It was literally days away from leaving two million Western Pennsylvanians without access to their doctors and their hospitals and their preferred coverage. I think three governors, five or six attorney generals, tried to resolve that over a decade, and we finally resolved it.
I think the work that we’ve done over the past four years to defend people’s rights, no matter what they look like, where they come from, who they love or who they pray to, or who they vote for. That’s been an essential theme in the work that we’ve done. I’m very proud of the many cases that we’ve brought and won to defend people’s rights, from women’s reproductive rights to LGBTQ rights, to protecting our planet and our state constitutional right to clean air and clean water.
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Can the fracking industry be regulated in Pennsylvania to protect citizens’ health? Why is this so difficult?
We are in the midst of an ongoing massive investigation of the fracking industry here in Pennsylvania. I can’t comment on what will come in the future, but I can tell you that through the criminal charges that we’ve already brought against multiple fracking companies — some of which they’ve already plead to — and the grand jury report which made recommendations to change the laws here in Pennsylvania to help better protect our communities.
I believe this is an important issue to focus on, and I will. Our state Constitution guarantees, under Article 1, Section 27, Pennsylvanians the right to clean air and pure water. I take that constitutional right very seriously. If anyone undermines that constitutional right, whether a fracking company or someone else, we’re going to hold them accountable.
The catholic church is losing its mothers [it’s about time!] 3:14 Min.
“And the cover-up reaches to the very top.”
How many more decades must we endure these horrific crimes by religious authorities and their lawyers?
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