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EXCLUSIVE: N.Y. pol says Brooklyn bishop tried to bribe her to drop child-abuse reform
Source: New York Daily News
The head of the Catholic Church in Brooklyn offered a $5,000 bribe to an Albany politician in exchange for dropping her support for the reform of a state law preventing victims of child sexual abuse from seeking justice, the pol claimed Monday.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, who has for a decade advocated for an overhaul of the states statute of limitations on claims of child sexual abuse, said she turned down the unholy hush money from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in 2010.
Im not a billionaire, but I dont need $5,000 to buy me off, Markey told the Daily News.
The offer came across as a payoff, not a campaign donation, she added.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, who has for a decade advocated for an overhaul of the states statute of limitations on claims of child sexual abuse, said she turned down the unholy hush money from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in 2010.
Im not a billionaire, but I dont need $5,000 to buy me off, Markey told the Daily News.
The offer came across as a payoff, not a campaign donation, she added.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-pol-claims-bishop-bribed-give-child-abuse-law-article-1.2663673?utm_content=buffer11080&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
The Bishop of Brooklyn is particularly odious and ordered that any politician who voted for marriage equality not be permitted in a Catholic Church in the Diocese.
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EXCLUSIVE: N.Y. pol says Brooklyn bishop tried to bribe her to drop child-abuse reform (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jun 2016
OP
Eeyew. Catholic Church has all the money in the world and the diddler offers 5K? Is that how
valerief
Jun 2016
#2
Her six year silence suggests that the size of the bribe might have been more offensive to her
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#4
Bishop probably trying to get the type of cushy post Cardinal Lawless got from the Vatican. Sleezy.
MichiganVote
Jun 2016
#8
Renew Deal
(81,895 posts)1. Glad to hear about a NY politician refusing a bribe.
valerief
(53,235 posts)2. Eeyew. Catholic Church has all the money in the world and the diddler offers 5K? Is that how
cheap it is to by pols these days?
zentrum
(9,866 posts)3. Good point.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)4. Her six year silence suggests that the size of the bribe might have been more offensive to her
than the making of that bribe. Why did she wait all those years and let that man continue bashing and attacking good people while protecting child abusers?
2010. Everything that Bishop has done since was done in part due to her silence.
Better late than never I guess, but it takes a village to be that Bishop. The silence of a village will do.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)7. Exactly. nt
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)9. Yep.
47of74
(18,470 posts)5. Hey Francis...
...here's another Bishop that needs to be retired post haste.
I had my way he'd be busted down to latrine cleaner and sent to some church up above the Arctic Circle for the rest of his life.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)6. The wonderpope doesn't care, insofar as it stays off the front pages.
Wouldn't want it to dent his PR campaign.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)8. Bishop probably trying to get the type of cushy post Cardinal Lawless got from the Vatican. Sleezy.