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Date: April 2, 2007 3:45:55 PM PDT
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Subject: Growing Up Rudy
"Rudy Giuliani's father was a plumber and bartender who had been
arrested for petty crimes before marriage straightened him out.
His mother was a bookkeeper ... As a boy, young Giuliani
considered becoming a priest, but instead studied law. He first
gained national prominence as a U.S. Attorney ... He oversaw more
than 4,000 convictions, enabling him to run for mayor as the
candidate who'd be 'tough on crime'." http://www.nndb.com/people/
587/000024515/
That's the "official biography." The TRUTH is:
RUDY'S IMMEDIATE FAMILY INCLUDED MAFIA HITMEN, and DURING
PUBERTY, HIS CLOSEST FRIEND WAS
A PEDERAST LONGING TO BE A CATHOLIC PRIEST
"The father he celebrated so often was a pathological predator. His
extended family harbored a junkie, a crooked cop, and a murky mob
wing. He dissolved his first marriage with a lie so he could appear
Catholic when he remarried. The very personal jewelry his first
wife found in her bedroom wasn't hers...."
--Wayne Barrett, "Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph
Guiliani", chapter: "All in the Family: Crooks, Cops and a Junkie"
And in related news:
"Mayor Giuliani -- a former federal prosecutor who won notice for
'pursuing' the Mafia -- had relatives linked to organized crime,
including a mobbed-up cousin who was gunned down by FBI agents in
1977, a new book says. Lewis D'Avanzo, a son of the mayor's uncle
and a guest at Giuliani's first wedding in 1968, was a 'ruthless
and widely feared mob associate' who headed a massive stolen car
ring, according to FBI documents and interviews detailed in Rudy!
An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, by Village Voice
senior editor Wayne Barrett. Due in stores next week, the book
sketches a largely unflattering portrait of the clan, depicting his
father, Harold, as a hothead and the 'muscle' behind a brother-in-
law's loansharking operation, run out of a Brooklyn bar. Along with
cracking heads, it says the mayor's father served time in state
prison for a stickup, rarely held an on-the-books job and once was
a gunman in a mob shootout in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. According
to the book, Giuliani's cousin Lewis D'Avanzo was known as "Steve
the Blond" and listed as armed and dangerous in FBI bulletins. His
criminal record included a 10-year federal sentence for the armed
hijacking of a truck loaded with $240,000 worth of mercury. The
book alleges that he was suspected of taking part in several
murders. D'Avanzo was gunned down by the FBI in October 1977, when
he tried to run down an agent after being stopped on a warrant that
accused him and two associates of transporting 100 stolen luxury
cars. Quoting an unnamed friend of D'Avanzo, the book describes a
1962 shootout pitting a local mobster against the mayor's father
and Leo D'Avanzo, Lewis D'Avanzo's father. The book says Leo was
later sanctioned by mob bosses for shooting at a Mafia member. Leo
D'Avanzo, who was known in family circles as a black sheep, ran
loansharking and gambling operations out of a Brooklyn bar where
Giuliani's father worked as a bartender. In his role as debt
collector, his father 'broke legs, smashed kneecaps, crunched
noses.' Joan Ellen D'Avanzo, a cousin who at one time lived with
Giuliani when he was a youngster, became a drug addict who was
beaten to death in 1973 at age 34. Her cause of death was listed as
undetermined, but several family members said she was murdered."
--Michael R. Blood, New York Daily News, "Rudy's Kin Tied to Mob",
July 06, 2000
"According to the [police] report, after a police officer stopped
the robbery, an indictment identified Harold Giuliani, then 26, as
the man who pressed a gun into the milkman's belly. But the milkman
later changed his statement, saying Giuliani's accomplice wielded
the pistol.
"A prosecutor, Louis Capozzoli, said in court that the milkman had
been told to change his story when "he was visited at about four
O'Clock that morning by several people who threatened him".
"Giuliani, who told a judge his name was Joseph Starrett, was
charged with four felonies, and pleaded innocent. After the milkman
changed his statement, Giuliani was allowed to plead guilty to just
one felony. He was sentenced to two to five years and released on
parole after a year and a half."
http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_56.html
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The items that follow might explain why, for example, Rudy loves to
"camp" it up, frequently dressing in drag in public, and why, after
he was kicked out of the house by wife Donna, he packed his bags
and moved in with a gay twosome.
http://shadowpress.org/giuliani_priest.52.htm
Giuliani's own shame-faced attempt to mitigate the potentially bad
effect on his political career of his first divorce, from his
cousin Regina Peruggi, involved yet another unsavory associate of
New York City's authoritarian, divisive mayor -- sleazy priest and
lawyer Alan Placa, whose spiritual corruption may well drive a
deeper nail in Rudy's political coffin than the worldly corruption
of Bernard Kerik or Russell Harding.
Placa attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn
along with Giuliani during the 1960s, and the two young Italian-
American go-getters became great friends. Peter Powers, a former
NYC deputy mayor whose friendship with both Giuliani and Placa
dates back to their days at Loughlin, reminisced about occasions
when he accompanied them to the opera and participated in their
late-night discussions touching on philosophy and theology (http://
www.bishop-accountability.org/news/
2002_06_03_Eisenberg_MisconductConcerns_RC.htm). Giuliani and
Placa collectively daydreamed about becoming, in Rudy's own words,
"professional philosophers, just sitting somewhere, developing
ideas and thoughts." Placa, however, decided on the priesthood as
his profession, while Giuliani, whose political ambitions
crystallized early in life, went on to law school. After
ordination in 1970, Placa also attended law school, and his
educational attainments in both the theological and legal realms
made him uniquely qualified to serve in later life as a bureaucrat
of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1968, while still a seminarian, Placa was best man at the
wedding of Rudolf Giuliani and Regina Peruggi. As Wayne Barrett
wrote in "Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolf
Giuliani" (Basic Books, 2000), Rudy's mother Helen Giuliani, a
devout Catholic who approved of her son's friendship with the
student priest, consulted with Placa about the second-cousin
problem and was informed that the degree of consanguinity was not
an obstacle to the marriage under canon law. That information was,
however, not accurate. Apparently, there was a form that the couple
was supposed to fill out reporting their blood relationship, and
the marriage would then have needed a special dispensation from the
diocese in order to proceed. The form was not filled out, and the
priest officiating at the marriage, Rev. James Moriarty, was not
informed that Peruggi and Giuliani were cousins (http://
www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_15972.shtml).
In 1982, after almost 14 years of childless marriage, then U.S.
Attorney Rudy Giuliani obtained a legal separation from Regina
Peruggi. Giuliani was already living in Washington D.C., sharing
living quarters with Donna Hanover. Rudy's new girlfriend, who had
previously worked as a broadcast journalist in Pennsylvania and
Florida, was then estranged from her husband, Stanley Hanover. Both
Giuliani and Ms. Hanover would soon be initiating divorce
proceedings from their former spouses to clear the way for their
own marriage.
At the time, Giuliani was just preparing to enter the political
arena and believed that the Catholic vote would be essential to his
future success. His divorce, as well as that of Hanover, might
prove to be political stumbling blocks in the future, as the church
refuses to recognize civil divorce and deems divorced people who
remarry to be living in sin. To help him get around the problem of
living in sin, he turned to his old friend, Monsignor Alan Placa,
now a high-ranking aide to Bishop John R. McGann of the diocese of
Rockville Center, Long Island., a New York City suburb. Placa's
office was located a few doors away from the diocesan marriage
bureau that had the authority to grant nuptial dispensations and
annulments.
Although the Catholic Church forbids divorce, it has long granted
annulments of marriages ruled contrary to canon law; an annulled
marriage is understood by the Church never to have existed in the
first place. Placa interceded on behalf of Giuliani, and his 14-
year marriage to Regina Peruggi was declared null and void by the
bishop on the grounds that Giuliani and Peruggi were had not
obtained a special dispensation for their second-cousin marriage in
1968. The process was highly irregular, but the hermetically sealed
environment of the diocesan headquarters kept the machinations well
out of public view. In general, once a marriage has been
consummated, the Church will not grant an annulment, but the fact
that Giuliani and his wife had no children apparently gave them
"plausible deniability." After the divorce and annulment, Ms.
Peruggi went on to obtain a Doctorate in Education from Columbia
University and has since served as president of Borough of
Manhattan Community College and as the director of the Central Park
Conservancy.
We already know about Rudy's soap opera relationship with Donna
Hanover, but the story of Monsignor Alan Placa in the years
following his intercession in the annulment of Giuliani's first
marriage is even more melodramatic. Placa's formal title at the
Archdiocese of Rockville Center was Vice Chancellor and Secretary
for Health Affairs, but behind the scenes, he acted as legal
council for the Bishop. In that capacity, all cases of alleged
sexual abuse by clergy were referred to him. When speaking with
families of victims, Placa acted as if he were trying to dispense
justice in their cases, but was in fact acting as the bishop's
lawyer. In his interviews with the victims of sexual molestation by
priests, Placa would steer them into making statements supporting
the diocese's case and enabling the offending priests to get off
the hook. Placa was a nationally recognized expert on sexual abuse
by Roman Catholic clergy and was personally in charge of the
diocese's policy on abuse.
In short, that policy was to badger the victim into backing down or
shutting up, or, in some cases, getting abusive priests reassigned
to other parishes where they often continued to work with children
(see http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/
2002_06_03_Eisenberg_ MisconductConcerns_RC.htm and http://
www.snapnetwork.org/news/massachusetts/ worcester/
WORC_Placa_ties.htm).
In the 1980s, unbeknownst to other high-ranking priests in the
Rockville Center diocese, Placa also acted as legal council to the
House of Affirmation in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, a treatment
center for priests with problems including those related to sex
abuse, where he strove to negotiate settlements with abuse victims
in the range of $20,000 to $100,000 each.
In 2002, Placa's decades-long efforts to cover up sexual abuse by
clergy came back to haunt him. In April of that year, he was asked
to resign by Bishop William Murphy, who had replaced Bishop McGann,
as Suffolk County was convening a grand jury to investigate
possible obstruction of justice by officials of the Archdiocese of
Rockville Center in regard to clerical sex abuse cases. During the
course of the grand jury proceedings, not only was Placa's role in
covering up clerical abuse brought to light, but the grand jury
report also identified Placa himself as "Priest F," who, while a
teacher at St. Pius X Preparatory Academy in Uniondale during the
1970s, before he became an official of the diocese, accumulated a
string of sexual abuse accusations, including one of attacking a
teenager and feeling him up while preparing banners for a right-to-
life demonstration. In connection with these accusations, Placa was
suspended in 2003 from performing the mass and exercising other
functions of the priesthood, pending an investigation. Summing up
the grand jury report, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas
Spota said that the grand jury could have indicted 23 Long Island
priests for sexually abusing children had the right laws been in
place at the time.
Placa denies these allegations. He cannot be criminally charged in
any of these incidents because they are alleged to have occurred in
the mid-1970s, and the statute of limitations has expired. In
September, 2002, in the midst of these investigations, but
apparently before his suspension, Placa was personally engaged by
ex-Mayor Giuliani to officiate at the funeral of his mother Helen
Giuliani, who had passed away at the age of 92. When asked to
comment on the accusations leveled against Placa, Rudy stated:
"Alan Placa is one of the finest people I know. He has helped
thousands of people as a priest, as a teacher and as a
friend." (See http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/
2002_06_15_Janison_FriendsDefend.htm).
Prosecutors are also interested in the timing of a real estate
transaction in which Rev. Thomas A. Kane, the founder of the House
of Affirmation who resigned in 1986 charged with embezzling money
from his own institution, mysteriously transferred some Florida
properties to Alan Placa and another priest, Monsignor Brendan
Riordan of Great Neck, Long Island. The Suffolk County DA's office
suspects that this may have been an attempt by Kane to conceal some
of the funds stolen from the till at the House of Affirmation.
Father Kane, who was involved in a case of molestation that cost
the archdiocese of Worcester, Massachusetts $44,000 to settle, was
a close friend of Placa and Riordan for many years. Among the long
string of misdeeds attributed to Kane, a notorious figure in the
scandal-plagued Massachusetts Catholic Church, are that he obtained
his job as the head of House of Affirmation by means of a phony
Ph.D. and that he used his good offices as a vehicle for procuring
boys, some as young as nine, to provide sexual favors to priests,
including Monsignor Riordan. After Placa was suspended from his job
at the Rockville Center diocese, he moved into Riordan's rectory at
St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck.
To handle his own legal problems, Placa called upon Michael D.
Hess, ex-corporation council to Rudolph Giuliani when he was mayor
and yet another longtime friend of both Giuliani and Placa. At the
time when he became Placa's lawyer, Hess was a senior managing
partner of Giuliani Partners LLC, the "crisis management" company
founded by the ex-Mayor in 2002, with several major players in the
former Giuliani Administration as its top executives.
In 2003, Giuliani gave his old friend Alan Placa, now all but
defrocked, a job at Giuliani Partners. It is unclear at this time
whether Placa still works for Giuliani Partners, which was recently
sold to an Australian firm to avoid conflict of interest
allegations as Giuliani has commenced his presidential campaign, or
what effect his association with a man like Alan Placa will have on
his campaign.
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http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/432306c2-20b7-4fb5-bb5a-008d54eaf343
... First, let me explicitly state that Placa denies any wrongdoing
– and he has never been charged with a crime.
But it is also true that the Diocese of Rockville Centre has
removed him from wearing the collar and performing any official
duties.
It should also be noted that a Grand Jury report paints a
devastating picture of sexual deviancy and molestation in his
Diocese -- the Rockville Centre Diocese. According to the National
Catholic Reporter:
“The report documents allegations of the rape of cheerleaders and
altar boys, of acts of molestation and seductions in churches,
rectories, on camping trips, and in the homes of the minors who
were abused. It tells of instances in which priests provided minors
with pornography and alcohol, and of cases in which the diocese
received allegations and didn’t report them to police, but instead
transferred the accused priests to other parishes.”
While this report does not mention Placa, it is possible he was one
of the 58 “abusive Priests” alluded to. This is particularly
concerning, because, as head of the so-called “Intervention Team,”
he was tasked with handling the sexual abuse allegations and
protecting the diocese from liability, The grand jury found that
Placa may have been involved in an attempt to sweep the allegations
under the rug. Again, according to the National Catholic Reporter:
“ … The grand jury has charged that while the team tried to appear
sympathetic to victims, its goal was actually protecting the
diocese through discouraging lawsuits, persuading victims to not go
public with accusations and assisting abusive priests in efforts to
remain in ministry. Though the grand jury report didn’t name the
team, according to Newsday, one of the members was, in all
likelihood, Msgr. Alan Placa, the diocese’s former vice chancellor …”
IN THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SUPREME COURT GRAND JURY REPORT, Placa (by
his own admission) is referred to as “Priest F,” a Priest who
engaged in pedophilia. Even after the grand jury testimony Rudy
stood by him. And in another 2003 New York Times article, Placa
described the zero tolerance policy on priests as “immoral and
unchristian.”
That same year, the New York Times also reported that, “Placa was
the architect of the diocese’s legal strategy, a national expert in
the field and the crucial member of the intervention team. Several
months after the panel was ended in April, he was suspended from
the ministry after being accused of abusing children.”
Additionally, the 2002 Newsday story included a quote from Kevin
Waldron, a fellow high school friend who corroborates Tollner’s
story, saying Tollner told him of the events after they happened.
The Newsday story goes on to say:
“A second former student, who asked that his name be withheld, said
he described to Suffolk prosecutors what he called ‘the newspaper
drill.’ ‘He always had a New York Times in his office. And he’d sit
down next to you on the couch in his office and open it wide and,
inevitably, his hand would brush your crotch,’ the man said. ‘He
did it over and over again, I can’t tell you how many times.’ That
man said he felt so violated that he wrote Placa an unsigned letter
20 years later, blaming him for his loss of interest in pursuing
the priesthood.”
Despite the allegations, Giuliani hired Placa right after all this
went down, and he remains with him today (based on news reports and
my call to the Giuliani Partners office). And as the New York Times
reported in 2002, amid allegations, Giuliani jumped to Placa’s
defense, saying: “He’s one of the people I admire most in the
world, and if most people did half the good that Alan’s done, the
world would be a wonderful place.”
Considering Giuliani’s relationship with the guy (he annulled his
wedding to his 2nd cousin and was best man in his first wedding) it
is not surprising that he has a certain amount of loyalty to him.
According to last week’s Newsday story:
“... despite the controversy, Giuliani gave his old friend Placa a
job at Giuliani Partners, and Michael Hess, a partner at the firm
and the ex-mayor's corporation counsel, handled Placa's legal
matters.”
If Placa is, in fact, innocent, this may be one of the most heroic
lines I’ve read; if he’s guilty, it’s one of the most disturbing.
So how does this play into the 2008 race? Leaders are entrusted to
make decisions. In essence, leaders are often in the business of
saying to the public: “trust me on this one.” But this is a
dangerous business to be in. If President Bush was wrong about
Russian President Vladmir Putin’s character (even after looking at
his soul), it is plausible that Mayor Giuliani made an honest
mistake about Placa.
During the Clinton Presidency, Rush Limbaugh often made the point
that an unusual number of Bill Clinton’s friends were either dead
or in jail. If a man is truly known by the company he keeps, then
Rudy Giuliani’s associations may imply something about his
character. At the very least, they may imply something about his
judgment.
One of the most important things a President does is appoint people
to perform various important jobs.
It is entirely possible for a leader to be a very good and
trustworthy person, yet still lack judgment in other people. Now,
if you’re a middle-manager at a retail store, this could be written
off as a “quirk.” But at the presidential level, where your
appointee’s wield so much power over the lives of others, this lack
of perspicacity is both damning and disqualifying. Rudy Giuliani –
whom I like and admire – has teetered dangerously close to this line.
Whether or not Kerik or Placa are innocent or guilty, it is still
interesting that Giuliani has surrounded himself by so many people
who have, at least, questionable backgrounds. What is more, he has
invited both of them to be part of his business -- in spite of the
evidence and allegations. It’s one thing to stay friends with
someone with a past, and it’s quite another thing to do business
with them.
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