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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 02:45 PM
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Giuliani has connection with accused priest
Edited on Mon Jul-23-07 03:27 PM by TheBaldyMan
It just gets worse for Rudi, it might make you feel sorry for him. After coke dealing campaign managers and LEO impersonators I bring you the http://telegram.com/article/20070722/NEWS/707220489/1116">Rudi Giuiliani pedophile ring scandal.

From the Worcester Telegeram and Gazette, Sun Jul 22, 2007


Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani has close ties to a Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting boys and who also was the lawyer for a now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring.

Monsignor Alan J. Placa, who works for Mr. Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, was legal adviser in the 1980s to the House of Affirmation, where priests accused of sexual abuse were sent for psychotherapy and other counseling services. The center closed in 1987 amid a financial scandal.

Monsignor Placa, who while an active priest arranged the annulment of Mr. Giuliani’s first marriage, baptized his two children and officiated at the funeral of his mother, is a childhood friend of Mr. Giuliani and they both attended Manhattanville College.


He was stripped of his duties as a priest, but not defrocked, after Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, published a story in 2002 about young men who alleged that Monsignor Placa abused them in the 1970s. He has been on administrative leave since and has worked for Mr. Giuliani for the past five years.

The thing that really puzzles me is why this hasn't been screamed on the MSM and cable news networks.

I mean, a disgraced priest working as a lawyer for a place that was described as "a breeding ground for sexual predators" who has close ties Guiliani. What part of this doesn't scream tabloid headlines.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 02:53 PM
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1. Wow. How effing audacious can they get? KnR n/t
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 03:10 PM
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2. If it were John Edwards with this connection
Edited on Mon Jul-23-07 03:10 PM by LiberalEsto
the media would be screaming 24/7.
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 03:25 PM
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4. John Edwards spending $x on his haircut gets more.
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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 03:24 PM
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3. Your own article specifies correctly that the priest hasn't been defrocked.
He's just been stripped of his duties and hasn't exactly been welcomed back with open arms.
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 03:26 PM
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5. my mistake, I'll edit if there is time.
Edited on Mon Jul-23-07 03:28 PM by TheBaldyMan
done: changed "defrocked priest" to "disgraced priest"
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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 03:53 PM
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6. Sure. And he's still a slimeball.
Giuliani's rose glasses are really thick it would seem.
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 03:57 PM
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7. Corruption, drug dealing, prostitution and now pedophilia.
Can someone tell why this man has a shot in hel of being President?
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 08:30 PM
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8. gratuitous self kick n/t
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