In an earlier case on behalf of a man named Justin Hoffman, a NJ suit had been filed in May 2019 naming Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio as a defendant during his time as the Bishop of Camden, for his part in covering-up and facilitating the activities of an alleged serial sex offender priest named Brendan Sullivan, now deceased. In that case it is alleged that as Bishop, DiMarzio failed in his duty to warn and protect children under his care
Hoffman's claims follow a pattern that involved Bishop DiMarzio in the matter of another serial abuser priest. In that older case, Philadelphia's Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua threw Bishop DiMarzio and the Camden Dioceses under the bus in a case involving a multiple offender priest named John P. Connor, who had served under Bevilacqua both in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia --- Bevilacqua claimed that when Connor had transferred from Camden, NJ to Bevilacqua's Diocese in Pittsburgh, they did not inform the Pittsburgh Diocese about Connor's history as an admitted offender in Camden --- in the end, Connor returned and served under DiMarzio in Camden before his voluntary withdrawal from the priesthood
Even though the Hoffman case was widely reported upon back in May in the Camden and Philadelphia area, there was hardly a ripple back in Brooklyn or in the NYC media, in spite of DiMarzio's having been named as a defendant, DiMarzio's allegedly having been actively involved in the cover-up of the priest's activities, and DiMarzio's failure to respond to press inquiries at the time the suit was filed..
Since DiMarzio is a Bishop in Brooklyn and had been the Papal selection to investigate and report on the Buffalo Diocese priest sex abuse scandal, the local Brooklyn press as well as the city-wide papers need to pursue all of DiMarzio's litigation coming out of his time as a priest and bishop in various New Jersey Dioceses.
As the movie "Spotlight" clearly demonstrated, the bigger picture of the bigger problem of the institutional corruption of the Roman Catholic Church requires the press to connect the dots and show the overall pattern, rather than look at each case individually.
Once DiMarzio's whole history, or even a big chunk of it, becomes part of the public record, he and his supporters won't be able to claim that he has a good record when it comes to dealing with priestly sexual abuse and/or relations with the victims of priestly sexual abuse and the Church's cover-ups of those cases.
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When DiMarzio left Camden, New Jersey to become the Bishop of Brooklyn, a Diocese of Camden spokesperson said that 2.27 million dollars was paid out on sex abuse claims during DiMarzio's four year tenure as Bishop of the Camden Diocese. There have been no public reports about the amount of money given to sex abuse victims for claims of abuse that occured while DiMarzio was Bishop of Camden.
Although much of the Father John P. Connor saga occurred during the time that Bishop Guilfoyle was the Bishop of Camden, the case of John P. Connor blew up during Bishop DiMarzio's tenure as the Bishop of Camden, and Connor was offered early retirement by the Diocese of Camden while DiMarzio was in charge. However, for most of the time that DiMarzio was Bishop of Camden, he allowed John P. Connor to perform priestly duties and live as a priest in Camden rectories.
A significant portion of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on the handling of priestly abuse charges by Pennsylvania Bishops concerned John P. Connor; and there was a finding that Cardinal Bevilacqua lied in his testimony to the Grand Jury concerning his handling of the John P. Connor matter.
Neither Bishop DiMarzio's formal statement about the Pennsylvania Grand Jury's Report nor his interview dealing with the significance and impact of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury on NETNY, both in August 2018, gave the slightest indication that he was personally and directly involved in one of the most notorious cases of hierarchy misconduct mentioned in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, the case of Father John P. Connor.
It is also very interesting that both DiMarzio's and Bevilacqua's careers are so intertwined with the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Isn't eaton close with dimarzio with cathedral club??
I don't know, is he?
What's your point?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Other victims was clear when the story broke. Garabedian doesn't do anything small. But DiMarzio does lots of small things and people.
Where is Eaton??
More important than all that stuff is the fact that Quaglione thought it was a good idea to retweet one of DiMarzio's Thanksgiving Tweets. DUH !!!
Politically, that's worse than anything Liam McCabe could ever do to or on a rug.
Q owns a home while Liam still lives with his mom in law .although ae understand his low level union operator job at TLC working for de blasio only pays 40,000.
Can we have a serious discussion about the Diocese and Bishop DiMarzio's sordid transgressions? Is John Q really the one responsible for the press response and crisis communications? Wouldn't they bring in some big firm to handle that much incoming fire?
You can always tell when Quaglione is tasting his own blood or it's getting into his eyes.
He always blindly throws the same roundhouse punches out there at McCAbe, Capano or Eaton.
Of course Quaglione is not 'the one responsible for the press response and crisis communications' of 'the Diocese and Bishop DiMarzio[]'.... But Quaglione does actually think that his various affiliations with Bishop DiMarzio and the Catholic Church is a positive for him politically.
Ask liam and capano what they do and I am sure they would be embarrassed
Q is a total loser. Worked on the public dime for his whole adult life so far, sucking up to Marty and Jerry, and then when the first good jobs come up, he forgets Q and gives them to the losers, Ray and Georgia....two total back stabbing losers who would sell their mothers for a dime. AND Q forgives Golden and then goes down with the sinking ship.....
3:42 As I see on FB Eaton is living a great life - traveling, spending time on LBI and in his mansion in Bay Ridge..
While all you Golden psychophants pray Golden will come back - only to lose again.
I actually hope Golden runs again, so that it will be the last nail in his coffin. Afterall he is over 70 now, isnt he. Everytime I see photos of him now, he has bandaids all over his body. Guess the alcohol, sun and hard life doesnt agree with him.
506, certainly Liam and Capano wouldn't need to be embarrassed for enabling and defending pedophiles 24/7, like Quaglione
If course is in LBI, he is too embarrassed he is shunned from city gop. I was involved in many of the Cats-Golden coordinating last year
.. and this year cats meeting and talking with Golden/Kassar and always have to joke that have to hide from craig.
Monday January 6 2020 Golden kicks off with a Malarkey tour.
Shunned by the New York City GOP? In America, that's called a Badge of Honor.
1005, Golden 'kicks off' what 'with a malarkey tour'?
Golden's only reason to stay in politics anymore is to skim and scam more donation money through the Bay Ridge Manor.
One of the 'in the bank' votes that automatically went to Golden in 2018 were people influenced by recipients of 'grant money'. Now, those 'automatic votes' will move over to Gounardes.
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