EXCLUSIVE: N.Y. pol says Brooklyn bishop tried to bribe her to drop child-abuse reform

[brooklynite]

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 state’s statute of limitations on claims of child sexual abuse, said she turned down the unholy hush money from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in 2010.

“I’m not a billionaire, but I don’t 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

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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.

[Renew Deal]

1. Glad to hear about a NY politician refusing a bribe.

[valerief]

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]

3. Good point.

[Bluenorthwest]

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]

7. Exactly. nt

[MichiganVote]

9. Yep.

[47of74]

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]

6. The wonderpope doesn't care, insofar as it stays off the front pages.

Wouldn't want it to dent his PR campaign.

[MichiganVote]

8. Bishop probably trying to get the type of cushy post Cardinal Lawless got from the Vatican. Sleezy.