tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53057272352791632362024-03-14T10:01:55.922-04:00The Ference WheelIn re: Mike Ference of Clairton, Pennsylvania; Clergy abuse activist.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-38353938341965573092014-03-28T16:58:00.000-04:002014-03-26T22:01:26.964-04:00Not even safe on a school bus parked on Catholic school grounds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was 8:00 am, December 5, 1989, when the phone rang and I was instructed<br />
to go to the emergency room of McKeesport Hospital, there had been an acci-<br />
dent on my son’s bus and he was involved. On the way, I made a conscious<br />
effort to focus on my family and positive thoughts. This simple decision may<br />
have played a role in the miracle that would take place.<br />
<br />
I took another route, because I feared the unknown, perhaps an overturned bus<br />
or maybe a bus still on fire because of a wreck with a train or tractor trailer, or<br />
whatever else may have occurred that morning. When we arrived at the emer-<br />
gency room my wife, eldest son Michael, and I soon realized that we had got-<br />
ten there before the ambulances carrying the injured students. This concerned<br />
me even more, because I now thought of my son trapped in a crumbled bus,<br />
with the jaws of life clawing away to get to the injured students.<br />
<br />
Next came a disheveled and highly unprofessional McKeesport detective ap-<br />
proaching us. He quickly pulled a small caliber gun out of a brown paper bag<br />
and asked if it belonged to our son. Shocked and dazed, we all replied no.<br />
Just then, someone shouted that the ambulance had arrived.<br />
<br />
An EMS attendant quickly wheeled in the first gurney. I knew to stay out of<br />
the way, especially once I saw a blanket covering almost the entire body. I<br />
shouted to the attendant, if that’s Adam Ference; let him know his family is<br />
here. We felt helpless.<br />
<br />
Moments later, a second and last gurney was wheeled in. Adam was elevated<br />
and appeared to be alert. Finally, we learned tht our son had been shot in the<br />
head. Certainly it had to be a superficial wound, and perhaps he was grazed.<br />
Wrong again.<br />
<br />
I went into see my son, while he was still sitting up, and advised him to try and<br />
relax, and try to rest. I glanced over at the other boy, peeking through the cur-<br />
tains; seeing the blood-soaked bed sheets absorbing what must have been a<br />
steady stream of blood from the boys head. If he wasn’t already dead, cer-<br />
tainly he soon would be.<br />
<br />
Still not knowing what happened, I made a promise to God that no matter what<br />
took place, if my son was somehow responsible, I would do whatever I could<br />
to make things good, or at least as good as possible. Never for a moment did<br />
I think that my son was capable of hurting some one. Rather, maybe my son<br />
tripped someone or pulled some sort of prank that resulted in a gun acciden-<br />
tally discharging?<br />
<br />
We decided to have my son sent to Presbyterian University Hospital in Oakland,<br />
now known as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center --- or simply UPMC. It<br />
was obvious that McKeesport Hospital was not equipped to handle this type of<br />
emergency. They transported my son by helicopter, and by the time we reached<br />
Presby, plans were already in the works to perform emergency neurosurgery.<br />
<br />
The medical treatment and accommodations at Presby for my son and our family<br />
were beyond superb. As we entered the parking area, I explained that my son<br />
had been flown in by helicopter. The security guard was expecting us. The guard<br />
offered to park the car and gave us instructions on where to go.<br />
<br />
We were ushered into a suite used by families during such emergency procedures.<br />
We were greeted by a team of hospital personnel specifically trained to handle<br />
these types of situations.<br />
<br />
We were advised to request a media block with a hospital spokesperson. No infor-<br />
mation would be given, until we reversed the block. The lead surgeon came to re-<br />
view the operation. I called a senior official at my job, to find out about the surgi-<br />
cal team. The CEO of the company was a major contributor to the University of<br />
Pittsburgh, and our company supplied Presby with thousands of dollars worth of<br />
food service supplies and equipment weekly. I needed to know if the surgeons<br />
were any good.<br />
<br />
The phone rang in minutes. My friend reassured me that the doctors were the<br />
best in their business. A bullet had penetrated Adam’s skull. It was hard to say<br />
how much damage was done. Whatever part of the brain was damaged from the<br />
bullet or bullet fragments would be gone for good. The bullet had entered the left<br />
side of the brain which would affect the right side. The doctor was hoping that on-<br />
ly damage would be done to the peripheral vision. We would have to wait and see.<br />
<br />
The operation would take hours. When the doctor left, a nun who was part of the<br />
support team, offered to lead us in prayer. I politely interrupted and volunteered<br />
my services instead. No offense was intended and none was taken. If anyone<br />
was to lead the prayer, I felt it was my duty as a father to reach inside my heart<br />
and soul and offer up the best sales pitch for God to somehow spare my child<br />
from death, but also to allow him to lead a normal life again. That too, I believe,<br />
was another important decision made that day.<br />
<br />
What seemed like days was only hours. I started smoking again that afternoon.<br />
My wife didn’t even try to chastise me. When the operation was over, the doc-<br />
tor was very please with the results. But, he cautioned that my son was still in<br />
very critical condition.<br />
<br />
Time would be telling the story, now. When we were allowed in the special in-<br />
tensive care unit, we saw Adam with his head bandaged. We were all relieved<br />
to see and hear each other. Adam was even cracking jokes. A bouquet of bal-<br />
loons had been delivered from one of my customers. The doctor had cautioned<br />
us that Adam may be in the hospital or rehab until February. Miraculously, he was<br />
home a week before Christmas.<br />
<br />
By the next day, we new for sure that it was an attempted murder on my son, by<br />
a boy suffering from a whole host of problems. As the headlines about the shoot-<br />
ing continued to project negative implications about the shooter, our family stayed<br />
focused on Adam’s recovery and the recovery of other patient.<br />
<br />
We shared fruit from a gift basket with folks in from Oklahoma. The family head<br />
was a rancher, he reminded everyone of JR Hewing on the television series Dallas.<br />
He was grateful for the fruit, but mostly because we showed compassion to his<br />
family, while ours was still in disarray.<br />
<br />
Our family learned a lot during this tragedy. Twenty-five years, later, we’re still<br />
learning. More importantly, it may be a time to let others learn from our experi-<br />
ence. When I promised God that I would do whatever I could to make good of<br />
the situation, no matter whose fault it was, little did I know that it would virtually<br />
consume my life. I’ve been told I have a passion for seeking the truth. Maybe<br />
so ... so that truth will be told. Today, December 25, 2013, is just the beginning.<br />
______________________________________________________________Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-6793080520279535582014-03-27T12:46:00.000-04:002014-03-26T22:01:41.126-04:00Headmaster priest interrogated Adam, instead of letting him rest.On December 5, 1989, my son was the victim of handgun bullet wound<br />
in the back of his head. The gun was held inches from his skull before<br />
the shooter pulled the trigger. The shooter then turned the gun on him-<br />
self and successfully committed suicide.<br />
<br />
The prime witness in this event was now dead. Believe or not, this was<br />
not the worst of it. What would happen over the next few days, the next<br />
few months, the next few years, and would continue for almost two de-<br />
cades tells the story of just how corrupt and uncivilized the Common-<br />
wealth of Pennsylvania has become.<br />
<br />
Teenage suicides, sexual molestation, and attempted murders proved to<br />
be nothing more than inconvenience for the Pennsylvania power mongers<br />
who were present when the exploitation of the political/judicial system<br />
was occurring – of a system they continue to maintain for the benefit of<br />
a few well-placed and well-networked persons who don't have the com-<br />
mon good in mind.<br />
<br />
After undergoing six or seven hours of emergency neurosurgery, my son<br />
was admitted to the intensive care unit and his vital signs would be closely<br />
monitored for the next several days. That night, my wife would begin her<br />
14-day vigil, almost never being more than a few feet from our son’s bed-<br />
side. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Diocese would begin its 20 year vigil of<br />
covering up accusations leveled against people employed by the church; <br />
not only Pittsburgh Diocesan personnel, but personnel from the Archdio-<br />
cese of Boston, as well.<br />
<br />
<b>The Red Flag Incident<i> </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i> On the night of Adam’s shooting, Serra Catholic High School </i></b><br />
<b><i> Headmaster Sysol (</i></b><i>now deceased</i><b><i>) ventured into Presbyterian </i></b><br />
<b><i> Hospital (</i></b><i>now the Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center</i><b><i>). Sysol </i></b><br />
<b><i> would ask my wife if he could visit with our son. It was close </i></b><br />
<b><i> to midnight and it had been the toughest day ever for my son </i></b><br />
<b><i> and our close-knit family. When Headmaster Sysol asked to </i></b><br />
<b><i> visit with my son, my wife thought that she would be going in </i></b><br />
<b><i> with him. No such luck. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b>The Questions as to the Headmaster's Intentions</b><br />
<br />
Was Sysol on a mission? Was Sysol on a clandestine operation, to find<br />
out what, if anything, Adam knew about the shooter who befriended a<br />
Fr. John Wellinger a few years earlier, at St. Clare of Assisi Parish in<br />
Clairton? Sysol would conveniently be in a position to also check and<br />
see if my son, Adam, knew anything about Brother Kenneth Ghastin, a<br />
teacher at Serra High School who was accused of molesting two teen-<br />
age brothers in 1974, during a time when he taught at the now-defunct<br />
Christopher Columbus High School, in Boston's North End. This is ac-<br />
cording to an article published by the Framingham Metro West Daily<br />
News.<br />
<br />
As far as goes any concern for my son, Sysol had none that I could de-<br />
tect. He would question my son for almost three relentless hours, ask-<br />
ing the same questions of a kid still dazed by a shotgun blast to the head<br />
and still trying to recover from seven hours of intensive neurosurgery.<br />
<br />
Let me repeat<b>: </b> At Serra Catholic High School, in the Diocese of Pitts-<br />
burgh, at the time when my son was the target of an attempted murder,<br />
there was a member of the Boston Archdiocese stationed there who<br />
was accused of molestation and who had close access to the school’s<br />
male youths. No one warned us of this. Instead, they covered up their<br />
mess.<br />
<br />
It wouldn’t be until the middle 1990s that the Archdiocese of Boston<br />
would finally reach a financial settlement with the families, concerning<br />
that teacher. The settlement would include a $30,000 payment to one<br />
of the brothers. Sadly, according to the paper, one of the brothers who<br />
had a history of drug misuse would die in 1994. Church files would re-<br />
gard it as a suicide, as if he intended to die from that occasion of drug<br />
misuse, and even though he apparently had no intention to die from drug<br />
use at any time prior. That is to say, the archdiocese did not mark the<br />
death as an accidental one resulting from long-term emotional trauma.<br />
<br />
For now, that’s the rest of the story. But plenty of questions still need<br />
to be answered. Did Donald Wuerl cooperate with the Archdiocese of<br />
Boston and permit known pedophiles to remain in the Pittsburgh Diocese?<br />
If so, were other pedophiles admitted to Serra Catholic High School and<br />
other Catholic institutions without us knowing it? Was it the assignment<br />
of Headmaster Sysol to keep an eye on Brother Kenneth Ghastin and<br />
possibly other abusive clergy transferred from Boston? Knowing what<br />
we know now about the Archdiocese of Boston abuse scandal, anything<br />
is possible.<br />
<br />
Little wonder that Father Ron Lengwin allegedly badgered the police of<br />
McKeesport to quash the case of the attempted murder of my son, with<br />
little investigative effort on the part of McKeesport police <b>... </b> and with no<br />
cooperation with Pennsylvania State Police. No wonder Serra Catholic<br />
High School administrators would not permit McKeesport police to in-<br />
vestigate the crime scene, according to the police report, and so done<br />
against Lengwin’s judgment. Incidentally, McKeesport police were not<br />
permitted on Serra Catholic High School property for over 24 hours af-<br />
ter the shooting of my son and the suicide of his shooter.<br />
<br />
It is becoming clear as to why the Pittsburgh Diocese went to such great<br />
lengths to cover up the accusations leveled against not merely one alleged<br />
predator, but at least two, namely John Wellinger and Kenneth Ghastin.<br />
No wonder why current St. Vincent Archabbot Douglas Nowicki would<br />
have motive to offer me what I construed was a de facto bribe, in his be-<br />
ing willing to admitting my son Adam to St. Vincent College, while saying<br />
it in such a way that I interpreted the offer as having strings attached to it.<br />
No wonder why Cardinal Bernard Law would visit that same Latrobe in-<br />
stitution before his final and most shameful departure for Rome.<br />
<br />
A telephone call to Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport, PA re-<br />
sulted in the principal refusing to give his last name and almost begging<br />
for advice on how to handle this latest development. I advised the man<br />
to do the right thing. He did not know how to respond or what I even<br />
meant. So much for the training and all the zero-tolerance policies.<br />
<br />
I had hoped to speak with Barbara Thorp of the Archdiocese of Boston<br />
as soon as was possible. Likewise, New York Franciscan administrators<br />
Father Patrick Boyle and Father Robert Campagna seemed prepared to<br />
cooperate and provide the necessary information needed to finally get to<br />
the truth. But, that hope was sparked in 2009. It's now the Year 2012,<br />
and I have gotten no results. Incidentally, Brother Ghastin asserted his<br />
innocence, at last count.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Mike Ference </i></b><br />
<br />
Anyone with additional information on this story or anything similar is re-<br />
quested to send a message to Mike's at <a href="mailto:mike@ferencemarketing.com" title="mailto:mike@ferencemarketing.com">mike@ferencemarketing.com</a>,<br />
or to call him at 412-233-5491. He is a personable guy, with exquisite<br />
public manners.<br />
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Appearing below are the top ten red<br />
flags flying over the Pittsburgh diocese<br />
which indicate that Fr. John Wellinger<br />
was being a dysfunctional sex freak at<br />
will, while Pittsburgh bishops Anthony<br />
<i>Phila</i><i>del</i><i>phia In</i><i>quest</i> Bevilacqua and<br />
<i>Lavender </i><i>Don</i> Wuerl looked the oth-<br />
er way<b>:</b><br />
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<b>Red Flag 1. </b>Allegedly, in the first quarter of 1987 Fr. John Wellinger, priest<br />
of the Pittsburgh diocese and pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in West Mifflin, PA,<br />
drugged a Univ of Pittsburgh student in an apartment that the victim shared<br />
with his older brother, also a Pitt student.<br />
<br />
According to the victim, he was knocked out for hours. When he awoke, he in-<br />
tuitively called 911. After rushing downstairs, against the wishes of Fr Wellinger,<br />
the teenage victim would meet the ambulance & the attending EMTs in the street.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>The allegation of the rest of the event goes as follows:</b><br />
<br />
The ambulance whisked away to Presbyterian University Hospital (now Univ<br />
of Pittsburgh Medical Center; UPMC). Fr. Wellinger allegedly followed the<br />
young victim to the hospital. Upon finding him in the emergency room, the vic-<br />
tim requested to Wellinger that he find his nurse. The victim would explain to<br />
the nurse that Wellinger was the man who had drugged him.<br />
<br />
Wellinger was ushered out by the nurse. To the best of my knowledge police<br />
were not notified; not even a security guard from the hospital. The victim was<br />
not examined by a doctor. In other words, the entire event was covered-up.<br />
<br />
The parents of the victim came to the hospital and took their son home. Fur-<br />
thermore, I was told by then Clairton Public Safety Director William Scully,<br />
in January of 1990, that a hospital worker, possibly a social worker, warned<br />
the parents to not take on the Pittsburgh diocese, because they are too pow-<br />
erful and wealthy.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 2. </b>Allegedly, a few days after the Red Flag #1 event, the victim’s<br />
father searched out Wellinger at the parish house. At the time, Wellinger was<br />
holding a parish council meeting. So, there were plenty of witnesses present,<br />
including the victim’s mother. The victim’s father was angry, because Welling-<br />
er had allegedly drugged his son and possibly raped and sodomized him. The<br />
man was also angry over an outing that lasted all night long between Wellinger<br />
and his wife.<br />
<br />
Concerned for the safety of Fr. Wellinger, parish council members ushered the<br />
priest out the back door and called the West Mifflin Police. Parish councils<br />
were logically concerned, because the victim’s father may have been intoxi-<br />
cated and carrying a weapon.<br />
<br />
There was no evidence of any police report, but the father would receive no-<br />
tification from the attorneys for the Diocese of Pittsburgh to stay away from<br />
Father John Wellinger and to stay off Holy Spirit property in West Mifflin, PA.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 3.</b> An allegation was brought to my attention within the past year or<br />
two, by a Catholic priest who stated to me via telephone that a person by the<br />
last name of Volmer went to Father Charles Bober in 1987 and warned Bober<br />
about Fr Wellinger’s deviant behavior. To the best of my knowledge, nothing<br />
was done.<br />
<br />
It should be noted that Bober is now a monsignor at Saint Killian’s Parish in<br />
Mars, Pennsylvania. A gem of a parish that’s raising millions and millions of<br />
dollars for a high school named after Cardinal Donald Wuerl. My guess is<br />
that Bober was rewarded with this plum position for being a team player.<br />
Covering-up for the crimes of Fr. John Wellinger would constitute being a<br />
team player in the Pittsburgh diocese, it would logically seem.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 4. </b>Sometime in 1988, the personal secretary of Father Wellinger<br />
went to the Pittsburgh diocese and spoke to Father Ronald Lengwin about<br />
Wellinger’s deviant behavior. She also reported that a teenage boy used the<br />
rectory as his home for the longest time and enjoyed making 900 calls to porn<br />
sites, while costing the parish hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.<br />
<br />
Sadly, the women whom I interviewed would be labeled as a rumor-monger,<br />
and once again, Bishop Bevilacqua and his cast of merry men would err on<br />
the side of dysfunctional sex freak, Fr John Wellinger, rather than erring on<br />
the side of caution.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Red Flag 5. </b>A suicide occurred in Father John Wellinger’s parish in 1989.<br />
According to then Clairton Public Safety Director William Scully, the suicide<br />
was linked to Wellinger. Scully said that he just didn’t have the needed proof.<br />
The boy was a 16 year old who took a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.<br />
<br />
According to Scully, the boy had an interest in the occult and Satanism. Well-<br />
inger would hold a seminar on occult practic and Satanism months later. Was<br />
the seminar a real concern of Wellinger’s or just another ruse to make it look<br />
like he cared?<br />
<br />
Sadly, there’s not much concern for PA children. When children turn up dead,<br />
there’s no quick response – when compared to emergencies involving law en-<br />
forcement personnel – when the call comes in on the police radio that an offi-<br />
cer is down.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 6. </b> Coincidentally, in 1989, another teenage boy who was befriend-<br />
ed by Father John Wellinger would also commit suicide with a gunshot blast to<br />
his head. This boy served as an altar boy for Wellinger when he was a student<br />
at St. Clare Elementary School (also known as Clairton Central Catholic.)<br />
Wellinger was an assistant parish priest.<br />
<br />
This young man would also try and kill a fellow student, my son. Similarly to<br />
the 16 year old mentioned in Red Flag 5, this second suicide victim had a very<br />
strong interest in the occult and Satanism. He and his friends carried the Satan-<br />
ic Bible back and forth to classes at Serra Catholic High School, in McKees-<br />
port, PA.<br />
<br />
According to a Pennsylvania state trooper who was an expert in the occult and<br />
Satanism, the young boy had an advanced knowledge on the topic. This con-<br />
clusion was based on his findings when brought in, to investigate the case.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 7. </b>The attempted murder of my son, Adam on Serra Catholic High<br />
School school ground, in McKeesport, PA, on December 5, 1989: At least<br />
one investigating officer (then Clairton Public Safety Director William Scully)<br />
would allege that the shooter (who committed suicide after he tried to kill my<br />
son) was sexually abused by Father John Wellinger.<br />
<br />
According to the former McKeesport Police Chief Tom Brletic, he stated<br />
to me in a telephone conversation that Father Ronald Lenguin refused to al-<br />
low investigating officers on Serra High School property for over 24 hours.<br />
<br />
Obviously, the diocese needed to prepare their version of the crime and to<br />
prevent police from doing a proper investigation. Clairton Public Safety Di-<br />
rector William Scully would claim the entire investigation had been quashed.<br />
Scully even provided details of Father John Wellinger drugging the teenager<br />
mentioned in Red Flag 1.<br />
<br />
More on the corruption of the city of McKeesport was in a copy of Scully’s<br />
original notes. I was told that the paper can be tested and dated, as well be-<br />
ing able to determinecwhen the message was written. If Scully knew about<br />
Wellinger drugging a teenager, then who else knew? Why was nothing done?<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 8.</b> Following the attempted murder of my son I spoke to a Sister<br />
Dorothy Dolac, principal of St. Clare School in Clairton ,who lived on the<br />
school premises when Father John Wellinger was an assistant priest in the<br />
adjoining parish. She alleged that she notified Bishop Donald Wuerl about<br />
my concerns of Fr. John Wellinger, as well as her own concerns. The boy<br />
who tried to kill my son on the Serra Catholic High School bus was an al-<br />
tar boy for Fr John Wellinger and also a student of Saint Clare Elementary<br />
School. At the time, the school may have been called Clairton Central<br />
Catholic.<br />
<br />
When I talked to Sr. Dorothy about Fr, John Wellinger, I asked her if he<br />
were capable of giving drugs and alcohol to underage teenagers. She an-<br />
swered yes. When I asked if Wellinger were capable of sexually abusing<br />
young boys, she answered yes. When I asked if she were aware of any of<br />
Wellinger’s victims, she answered she couldn’t say. But, it did't seem that<br />
she wasn’t aware of any victims. It seemed as if she had promised to keep<br />
the information a secret.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 9. </b> In our family’s lawsuit against the Pittsburgh diocese, my attor-<br />
ney’s first question, when deposing former Clairton Public Safety Director<br />
William Scully, was what he knew about Fr John Wellinger sexually abusing<br />
any students at Serra Catholic High School. The attorney immediately stood<br />
up, pounded his fist on the table, and stated that, if this type of questioning did<br />
not cease, the diocese would file the appropriate legal maneuvers.<br />
<br />
My attorney’s question startled me, and the attorney for the Pittsburgh diocese<br />
scared the hell out of me. In looking back, it might have been rehearsed and the-<br />
atrical collusion between the diocese, my attorney, Brian Knowles, and the law<br />
firm for whom he worked<b>;</b> <i>Behrend and Ernesberger</i>. I dropped the case,<br />
then and there.<br />
<br />
Instead of my attorney trying to calm me down and stating he would just rephrase<br />
the question ... or at least take a break and explain to me that I had nothing to wor-<br />
ry about ... he allowed me to walk out on what should have been a multimillion dol-<br />
lar settlement. Lawyers, just like PA judges, are bought and sold, like stolen mer-<br />
chandise on sale at an outdoor flea market.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 9.</b> I have literally published dozens of articles on Fr. John Wellinger<br />
and the cover-ups involving the Pittsburgh diocese, as well as elected pennsyl-<br />
vanian officials and PA law enforcement officers at all levels. My articles on<br />
Father John Wellinger and Cardinal Donald “<i>Lavender Don”</i> Wuerl are pub-<br />
lished on Bishop-Accountability. My editorials and comments have been pub-<br />
lished in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, and<br />
other newspapers, magazines, websites, and blogs on an international level.<br />
<br />
Local and national television producers, editors, writers and investigative re-<br />
porters have sought my advice on the cover-ups in the Pittsburgh Diocese and<br />
beyond for years. The same can be said for victims of clergy sex abuse, victims<br />
of PA corruption, and their family members having recourse to me, for advice.<br />
<br />
And how does the Pittsburgh Diocese respond? Well, according to a source,<br />
the powers that be in the diocese allegedly allegedly allegedly did something<br />
somewhat equivalent to posting a <i><b>Mike Ference, Wanted, Dead or Alive</b></i><br />
poster. This is proverbially speaking, of course. But, not absolutely proverb-<br />
ial. It's something that a reasonable would find hard to believe, if what was<br />
alleged to me is true.<br />
<br />
<b>Red Flag 10.</b> In the Spring of 1991, I scheduled an appointment with Penn-<br />
sylvania state trooper, Corporal Robert Griffin. I met Griffin at his training fa-<br />
cility in the old St Joseph Seminary on Route 30 in Greensburg. I shared with<br />
Griffin all of the information I had assembled, concerning the quashed investiga-<br />
tion of the attempted murder of my son and all the information I had gathered<br />
on John Wellinger.<br />
<br />
Griffin applauded me for my efforts and then shared additional information about<br />
the case. He counseled me on letting go, much like a friend would do. He also<br />
arranged for me to meet with an Allegheny County detective who he knew had<br />
investigated clergy sex abuse crimes, promising to contact West Mifflin police.<br />
He wanted the West Mifflin Police to at least question Father John Wellinger<br />
about some of my concerns.<br />
<br />
In other words, a seasoned PA State Trooper with expertise in the occult and<br />
Satanism took me seriously and even commended me for my investigative and<br />
research skills. Now, only two people knew I were visiting with Griffin and<br />
William Scully. Within a week, Father Wellinger would abruptly leave Holy<br />
Spirit Parish in West Mifflin, PA. I have confirmation of this from Wellinger’s<br />
former personal secretary.<br />
<br />
Wellinger would leave on his own, only to be replaced by Father Valentine,<br />
the alleged <b>fixer</b>, as expert witness and author Richard Sipe likes to call them.<br />
For what it’s worth, Fr Valentine is in hiding somewhere. A story for another<br />
day.<br />
<br />
According to Scully and Wellinger’s former personal secretary, Fr. Wellinger<br />
would spend some of his new-found free time in a McKees Rock Parish with<br />
Father Richard Dorsch, according to several sources alleged to be Wellinger’s<br />
lover from their days in the seminary.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Summary</b><br />
<br />
According to Pittsburgh diocesan bishops Anthony Bevilacqua, Donald “<i>The</i><br />
<i>Lavender One</i>” Wuerl and diocesan spokesman Ron Lengwin, the first time<br />
they ever caught wind of Father John Wellinger’s inappropriate behavior was<br />
1995. Parents of Chris Mathews spoke directly to David Zubik, years before<br />
he was a bishop, and complained about Wellinger sexually molesting their 11<br />
year old son in 1989.<br />
<br />
Whom do you believe, Mike Ference or a person with <i><u>Bishop</u></i> or <i><u>Cardinal</u></i><br />
before his name? Much more to come.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-62990109891354373282014-03-24T19:32:00.000-04:002014-03-22T19:39:51.920-04:004th accused priest in less than three months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the fourth time in less than three months, a Roman Catholic cleric with ties to<br />
the Pittsburgh Diocese makes the news ... and for all the wrong reasons. Brother<br />
Bernard Joseph Hartman who taught at North Central High School in the Pitts-<br />
burgh Diocese from 1986 to 1997 ... and short stints 1961 and 1979 ... is facing<br />
a trial in Australia on multiple charges of beating and molesting four children.<br />
<br />
As always, Fr. Ron Lengwin, official spokesperson for the Pittsburgh Diocese<br />
explains it all away by paraphrasing the words made famous by the Nazi prison<br />
camp sergeant on Hogan’s Heros: “<i><b>I know nothing</b></i>.”<br />
<br />
Since January of this year, I forced the Pittsburgh Diocese to send three letters,<br />
warning parishioners and school alumni of catholic clerics who were credibly ac-<br />
cused of molesting children. How is it that a $9 an hour security guard has the<br />
wherewithal to protect children, but the Pittsburgh Diocese lacks the resources<br />
and the gumption to do the same?<br />
<br />
Again, I'd be willing to offer my knowledge based on my 25 years of research<br />
on clergy sex abuse and other crimes in the Pittsburgh Diocese free of charge.<br />
I’m committed to helping survivors, and one has to wonder if the Pittsburgh Di-<br />
ocese is also committed?<br />
<br />
Here’s some background information I would like to share with the Pittsburgh<br />
Diocese, concerning the harm done by Fr John Wellinger. I happen to person-<br />
ally know that there are still victims who have not only been harmed by Welling-<br />
er, but also by the Pittsburgh Diocese.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.snapnetwork.org/pa_marianist_brother_accused_of_abuse_in_australia_spent_time_in_pittsburgh" target="_blank">http://www.snapnetwork.org/pa_marianist_brother_accused_of_abuse_in_australia_spent_time_in_pittsburgh</a><br />
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br />
This link provides facts on Father John Wellinger's past behavior:<br />
<a href="http://mikeference.blogspot.com/2013/12/red-flags.html" target="_blank">http://mikeference.blogspot.com/2013/12/red-flags.html</a><br />
<br />
Here’s a link to the article on Brother Hartman:<br />
<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/03/22/Former-North-Catholic-teacher-charged/stories/20140322008" target="_blank">http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/03/22/Former-North-Catholic-teacher-charged/stories/20140322008</a>7Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-27615729409213265932014-03-17T20:04:00.000-04:002014-03-22T19:15:13.494-04:00Pittsburgh Crime Family Underboss Chuckie Porter ... and son<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My guess would be that, some time in the 1980s, organized crime began to take a different direction - at least in Pennsylvania.
The New York mob wasn’t allowing any new made men in the Pittsburgh Cosa Nostra. In the1990s, things began to change. In my opinion, organized crime was successfully evolving into synchronized crime. My investigations would lead to the conclusion the PA government eventually became compromised. Unless all of my sources were lying, judges, elected officials, and law enforcement personnel would soon be bought and sold like stolen merchandise at an outdoor flea market.<br />
<br />
Briefly, Chuckie Porter, an underboss for Michael Genovese, was doing time. He decides to get out of jail and start spilling his guts to the feds in the early 90s. Around the same time his son, Charles Porter Jr, would become a partner in a law firm with Stephen Zappala Jr. Was it a coincidence or the beginning stages of Synchronized Crime?<br />
<br />
As an underboss, Chuckie Porter would have been privy to all of the corrupt that politicians, elected officials on-the-take, and dirty cops had to offer. Porter would know all the financial data used to buy protection. Thus, he could pass such information to his son, under the veil of lawyer/client confidentiality. Is it possible that the partnership between Zappala and Porter’s son, Charles Jr, was the new beginning for the mob? With this kind of insider information coming from (and even to) an under-boss, all the more people could be bought and sold.<br />
<br />
No need to whack anyone, just indict, prosecute, and make sure the judge hands down a lofty sentence. That would send a strong message to anyone willing to mess with the Zappala family. This would make the Zappala family an authentic terrorist group, causing as much fear as those group which use explosives.<br />
<br />
Dr. Cyril Wecht first mentioned the “threat to indict,” while DA Zappala was either prosecuting or persecuting Senator Jane Orie. The Orie family characterized the legal attack as a Mafia hit, coincidentally.<br />
And equally coincidental is the observation that Charles Porter Jr would represent one of the witnesses in the trial.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_660862.html#axzz2qhUe037f" target="_blank">http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_660862.html#axzz2qhUe037f</a><br />
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<a href="http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_724020.html#axzz2qhUe037f" target="_blank">http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_724020.html#axzz2qhUe037f</a><br />
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So, the question is simple. Was it the merging of two families that would some day forge the new power structure. Porter Jr was could represent his father in some capacity and then could share confidential information with his partners. As an underboss, Chuckie Porter would have known all the dirty DA's.<br />
He would have known which judges could have been bought and sold. The feds don't share this kind of information.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001202porter2.asp" target="_blank">http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001202porter2.asp</a><br />
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Upon graduation from law school, Stephen Zappala Jr joined the Pittsburgh law firms of Grogan, Graffam, McGinley & Lucchino and Dattilo, Barry, Fasulo & Cambest as an associate. In 1990, he became a partner at Brucker, Zappala, Schneider & Porter, another Pittsburgh law firm.<br />
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<a href="http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_724020.html#axzz2qhUe037f" target="_blank">http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_724020.html#axzz2qhUe037f</a><br />
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<a href="http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001202porter2.asp" target="_blank">http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001202porter2.asp</a><br />
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<a href="http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001106mobnow6.asp" target="_blank">http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001106mobnow6.asp</a><br />
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<a href="http://lacndb.com/php/Info.php?name=Michael%20Genovese" target="_blank">http://lacndb.com/php/Info.php?name=Michael%20Genovese</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.crimetv.com/page/people/syndicate/pittsburgh-crime-family/1254" target="_blank">http://www.crimetv.com/page/people/syndicate/pittsburgh-crime-family/1254</a><br />
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<br />
The attempted murder of my son took place in McKeeport, PA, on the grounds of Serra Catholic High School. The day was December 5, 1989. Almost a quarter of a century later, the truth will finally be written.<br />
<br />
Then McKeesport Mayor Lou Washowich was rewarded with a plum position on the PA Turnpike Commission. Ever so coincidentally, he helped the Pittsburgh Diocese keep hidden the intricate details of the attempted murder of my son.<br />
<br />
One of his underlings, current PA Senator Jim Brewster, spearheaded passage by McKeesport Council to award a pension to Washowich prior to his leaving for the PA Turnpike Commission. This was done, even though Washowich did not have the accumulated years to qualify for a pension. Brewster was a councilman at the time.<br />
<br />
Then McKeesport police chief, Tom Brletic, also covered-up the details involving the attempted murder of my son. He then enjoyed favor from those in power, ever so coincidentally. Firstly, he was given the democratic endorsement for district magistrate, and this is the same as winning the election. Next, he was chosen to be an investigator for the Casino Board.<br />
<br />
Today’s trivia question arises: Which PA agency is the most corrupt? PA Turnpike Commission or the PA Casino Association? Both have strong ties to the Zappala Family, and it should be noted that the solicitor for the city of McKeesport (when my son was shot) was Dodaro, Cambest & Associates. They would come to be the law firm of choice for the Zappala family ... ever so coincidentally.<br />
<br />
Take note in the article linked below how many former McKeesport police were indicted. Take notice that one McKeesport councilman was indicted, too. He also owns a restaurant where the influential family holds its pow-wows.<br />
<br />
The Police Chief of Forward Township who was also a former police officer in McKeesport allegedly ran a coffee shop/sports betting/video poker machine/numbers joint while still on the McKeesport police force, or better yet, police farce.<br />
<br />
It only gets worse. Or perhaps I should stay it only get all the more ever-so-coincidental. Stay tuned.<br />
<a href="http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/4653630-74/count-charged-counts#axzz2pRm5hN1L" target="_blank">http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/4653630-74/count-charged-counts#axzz2pRm5hN1L</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-32329501520581465532014-03-13T18:49:00.000-04:002014-03-22T19:15:25.858-04:00An open letter to Bishop David Zubik, Pittsburgh Diocese<div class="MsoNormal">
Could the attempted murder of my
son, Adam Ference, have been averted, if the diocesan hierarchy had properly supervised
former Catholic priest, Father John Wellinger. Please review my allegations and note which ones are true or false. If you need additional information, I would
gladly provide it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Question 1. </b>Allegedly, in the first quarter of 1987
Fr. John Wellinger, a priest of the Pittsburgh diocese and pastor of Holy Spirit
Parish in West Mifflin, drugged a University of Pittsburgh student in an
apartment that the victim shared with his older brother, also a Pitt
student.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
According to the victim, he was knocked out for hours. When he
awoke, he intuitively called 911. After rushing downstairs, against the wishes
of Fr Wellinger, the teenage victim flagged down and met the ambulance and the
attending EMTs in the street.<br />
<b><br />The allegation of the rest of the event
goes as follows:</b><br />
<br />
The ambulance whisked away to the University Hospital emergency room (now University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;
UPMC). Fr. Wellinger allegedly followed the young victim to the hospital. Upon
finding him in the emergency room, the victim requested that Wellinger find his
nurse. When the nurse returned the victim would explain that Wellinger was the
man who had drugged him.<br />
<br />
Wellinger was ushered out by the nurse. To the
best of my knowledge, police were not notified; not even a security guard from
the hospital. The victim was not examined by a doctor. In other words, the
entire event was covered-up.<br />
<br />
The parents of the victim came to the
hospital and took their son home. Furthermore, I was told by then Clairton
Public Safety Director William Scully, in January of 1990, that a hospital
worker, possibly a social worker, warned the parents to not take on the
Pittsburgh diocese, because they are too powerful and wealthy.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I can provide the victim's name and contact information to
verify my story. Bishop David Zubik, is this event TRUE or FALSE? If it's
true, the attempted murder of my son could have been averted.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<b>Question
2. </b>Allegedly, a few days after the above event, the victim’s father searched
out Wellinger at the parish house. At the time, Wellinger was holding a parish
council meeting. So, there were plenty of witnesses present, including the
victim’s mother. The victim’s father was angry, because Wellinger had
allegedly drugged his son and possibly raped and sodomized him. The man was
also angry over an outing that lasted all night long between Wellinger and his
wife. According to an eyewitness Wellinger was ushered out a back door and the
West Mifflin Police were called. Parish council members were logically concerned, because the victim’s father may have
been intoxicated and carrying a weapon.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
Is there evidence of any police
report? Did the father receive notification from attorneys of the
Diocese of Pittsburgh to stay away from Father John Wellinger and to stay off of Holy Spirit property in West Mifflin, PA? Bishop David Zubik, is this event TRUE or FALSE? If it's
true, then the attempted murder of my son could have been averted.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<b>Question
3.</b> An allegation was brought to my attention within the past year or two, by
a Catholic priest who stated to me via telephone that a person by the last name
of Volmer went to Father Charles Bober in 1987 and warned Bober about Fr
Wellinger’s deviant behavior. To the best of my knowledge, nothing was
done.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Bishop David Zubik is this event TRUE or FALSE? If it's
true, then the attempted murder of my son could have been averted.<br />
<br />
<b>Question
4. At s</b>ometime in 1988, the personal secretary of Father Wellinger allegedly
went to the Pittsburgh diocese and spoke to Father Ronald Lengwin about
Wellinger’s deviant behavior. She also reported that a teenage boy used the
rectory as his home for the longest time and enjoyed making 900 calls to porn
sites, while costing the parish hundreds, if not thousands of
dollars.<br />
<br />
Sadly, the women whom I interviewed would be labeled as a
rumor-monger, and once again, Bishop Bevilacqua would err on the side of
dysfunctional sex freak, Fr John Wellinger, rather than erring on the side of
caution. Bishop David Zubik, is this event TRUE or FALSE? If it's
true, then the attempted murder of my son could have been averted.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<b>Question
5. </b>A suicide occurred in Father John Wellinger’s parish in 1989. According
to then Clairton Public Safety Director William Scully, the suicide allegedly was linked to Wellinger. Scully said that he just didn’t have the needed
proof. The boy who took a gun to his head and pulled the
trigger was 16 years old.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
According to Scully, the boy had an interest in the occult and
Satanism. Wellinger would hold a seminar on occult practice and Satanism months
later. Bishop David Zubik is this
event TRUE or FALSE? If it's true, then the attempted murder of my son could have
been averted.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-86716178826011269192014-03-11T14:34:00.000-04:002014-03-22T19:16:05.763-04:00How hard could it really have been to have gotten rid of a district attorney in the State of Pennsylvania? ... the Cash for Kids State.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How hard is it to get rid of a district attorney PA? In my opinion, it’s easy to do, with help of Synchronized Crime. Below are exerpts of Yardbird.com's Bill Keisling, on former Allegheny County District Attorney Robert Duggan. Duggan, too, was allegedly involved in the gambling ring protection and payoffs scheme that I described in my earlier post.<br />
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At the bottom of this post is the link to other murders ... or suicides, as the authorities like to call cases with multiple stab wounds. Keep in mind that once a crime is labeled a suicide, it’s a closed case. Like the attempted murder of my son, being that the shooter committed suicide, McKeesport authorities from Mayor Lou Washowich on down the ranks were only too happy to accommodate the wishes of the Pittsburgh Diocese and close the case of my son's attempted murder, ASAP.<br />
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As a brief note: The shot gun which killed Duggan was 6 to 7 feet away from his corpse. He was found near ten foot tall pine trees.<br />
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In his 1991 book, <i><u>Maybe Four Steps</u></i>, author Bill Keisling recounts the mysterious fate of Allegheny County District Attorney Robert Duggan<b>:</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Robert W. Duggan was district attorney of Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, from 1964 until his death in 1974. During Duggan's ten-year tenure as DA there were few prosecutions for gambling. Republican Duggan, however, was hardly the first or last corrupt Pittsburgh official. Duggan's predecessor in the DA's office was Democrat Edward "Easy Going Eddie" Boyle. Boyle is said to have lost at the polls to Duggan because, during the election campaign, the Republicans under governor William Scranton sent state police on a much-publicized raid of previously untouched Pittsburgh whorehouses, arresting 70 people in vice raids, underscoring just how "easy going" DA Eddie Boyle had been</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Once in office, by most accounts, Duggan picked up where Easy Going Eddie left off. The main difference in both men's public service seems to be that Boyle's career was allowed to end at the polls, while Duggan's was terminated at the hands of a relentless prosecutor -- Richard Thornburgh</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Historically, as in most communities, Pittsburgh's politicians sent around collectors to the bookies and the prostitutes and the purveyors of vice, insisting on a piece of the sin money for the political machines. It's the old protection racket. One observer told me that up into the 1950s, through the mayorship of David Lawrence (who later became governor of Pennsylvania), Pittsburgh's collectors turned the money over to the political parties. But in the 1960s, with the advent of television, the party system began to break down and each politician became a free agent, each having to raise money for, among other things, expensive television commercials. In the old days office holders were selected by party bosses. Television commercials suddenly provided the means of going over the heads of the bosses straight to the public. Television, the herald of democracy the world over, killed the political machines in the United States</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>District attorney Duggan used two collectors to raise money -- Robert Butzler, the rackets squad chief at the county detective bureau and, later, Samuel Ferraro, who followed Butzler as rackets squad chief. If you were a gambler and you wanted to avoid trouble with the law you paid the DA's rackets squad chief. If you didn't pay the rackets squad chief he'd arrest you and Duggan would prosecute, though this seldom happened, as the graft system by this time was so entrenched and well practiced</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"</b><i><b>In Pittsburgh it's widely held that Duggan's undoing wasn't dishonesty, but a falling out he had with wealthy Republican matron Elsie Hillman. She had married Henry Hillman, holder of one of the world's great fortunes, and her contributions and whims could sway the decisions of senators and presidents</b></i>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Duggan himself had been born into money, was comfortable among the country club set, controlled a family estate in nearby Ligonier Township, and enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Cordelia Scaife May, an heir to the Mellon fortune</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>The precise nature of Duggan's supposed falling out with Hillman remains in dispute. One observer said Duggan wanted his cousin named as US attorney, while Hillman wanted Thornburgh. This dispute, said the observer, caused bad blood. In the end, according to Pittsburgh political lore, Hillman offered Thornburgh the job only after he promised to go after Duggan</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>The Pollyannas among us suggest that Hillman and the other party bosses ran out of patience with patrician Duggan, who hung out at the club, remained above the fray and refused to do the party bosses' bidding. Some even suggest that Duggan didn't know what his collectors were up to, that he had money of his own and so didn't need graft, that Duggan was an innocent bystander who was persecuted for activities his party had sanctioned for more than one hundred years. Others say Duggan certainly knew what his collectors were up to, that the money they skimmed went into his pocket (or at least was meant to meet campaign expenses, such as television time)</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"</b><i><b>In any event, Thornburgh went after Duggan. What followed was a cat and mouse game between the two prosecutors, a relentless pursuit. Fearing that Thornburgh was about to come after collector Robert Butzler, Duggan moved Butzler out of the way to a police chief's job in the suburbs while shifting the collection duties to Samuel Ferraro. As Thornburgh got closer, Duggan secretly married Cordelia Scaife May, whose wealth, observers say, was meant to mask the unaccountable graft money Duggan had been receiving for years. Thornburgh then subpoenaed records which he said proved Duggan's money was graft, and not May's. Collector Samuel Ferraro then was threatened with prosecution, only to be released after he agreed to cooperate with Thornburgh's investigation. With Ferraro agreeing to talk against Duggan, finally the day came when Duggan was indicted for failing to report income of $137,416 from 1967 through 1970</b></i>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Thornburgh's victory was extremely short lived. Within hours of his indictment, on March 5, 1974, Duggan was found shot to death on his family estate in Ligonier, the victim of a shotgun blast. The body was found on the grounds of the estate; somehow the shotgun ended up seven to ten feet from the body. Duggan, authorities said, apparently had been hunting before accidently or purposefully turning the shotgun on himself</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"</b><i><b>The Pittsburgh Press asked, "Was the law closing in on Robert W. Duggan so inexorably that his only escape was suicide</b></i>?<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Upon hearing the news of Duggan's death Thornburgh told a reporter, "The terrible personal tragedy overshadows every aspect of this case. Anytime a guy perceives himself to be in a position that he thinks he has to take his own life, it's very sad. I've known tragedy in my own life. I know what it is</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Thornburgh's crocodile tears aside, it's not all that clear that Duggan took his own life. For one thing, how had the shotgun ended up ten feet away from the body? For another, how had Duggan managed to shoot himself with the long-barrelled gun? "You don't shoot yourself with a shotgun with your shoes on," one investigator told me, pointing out that the barrel was so long only a bare toe could have fired the trigger</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Speculation persists that Duggan had been murdered. Who had a motive for killing the indicted DA? Perhaps mafia bookmakers who'd been paying off Duggan over the years feared he'd talk. The suspects could even had included wealthy Pittsburghers, who'd been embarrassed by Duggan. We'll probably never know, as Thornburgh accepted Duggan's death as a suicide and closed the case. There was never a serious investigation of the supposed suicide, though such an investigation may have laid bare a century's practice of organized crime buying political protection</i></b>.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"</b><i><b>The point is, Thornburgh obviously wasn't interested in exposing the historical involvement of organized crime in law enforcement. He was obviously only interested in getting Robert Duggan out of the way</b></i>.<b>"</b><br />
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<a href="http://yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm" target="_blank">http://yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now that I have an element of credibility, let's go to the next step:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">An Introduction to Synchronized Crime 101, from my angle of view through the years</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #37404e; display: inline; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Although I only coined the
term <b><i>Synchronized
Crime</i></b> in the past year or so,
it's been around for decades. Here's a brief synopsis as it allegedly applies
to Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Western Pa, pursuant to the Zappala Family
which, in my opinion, and after all of my investigation, has the features of a
terrorist group, only without the need of dynamite and suicide bombers. The
terror that they made people feel was equally as real, none the
less.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #37404e; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Enter
Antonio Ripepi, an alleged underboss in the Pittsburgh Mob, along with his
alleged Irish mobster friend from Glassport, PA, who, with Ripepi, allegedly
opened up the sum total of gambling joints in Western PA, parts of Ohio, and
West Virginia, some of which are still in operation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;">Ripepi
also allegedly made it easy for elected officials and law enforcement to not
only play along, but to embrace the corrupt system with enthusiasm.
</span><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;">Essentially, what you had,
not only in Pittsburgh, but in any Sicilian-dominated urban setting, was the
corruption of elected officials and the top brass of law enforcement which just
filtered down to the rest of the schmucks. Many community leaders and business
executives also embraced the system, allegedly --- more on this aspect of
alleged Synchronized Crime at a later date. However, for now, keep in mind that
Synchronized Crime makes it very easy to cover-up clergy sex abuse crimes. From
my years of investigating, it's my opinion that all the players are at the same
table.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Here’s how it was
explained to me by a gentleman, first name Gene, who married a woman who claimed
to be Antonio Ripepi’s goddaughter. Each city with numbers writers or
gambling devices (ei, video poker machines) bought protection by means of cash
payments to police chiefs, district magistrates, and mayors on the local level
... according to Gene.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #37404e; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">On the
county level, everything was controlled through the district attorney’s office,
including the collection of cash payments and the identification and tracking of
illegal operations ... so said Gene.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #37404e; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">In my
hometown of Clairton, Synchronized Crime was a daily routine, when I was a
youth, I grew up with friends whose dads were in the mob, yet who served as
police chiefs, mayors, etc. When I was a kid growing up, I played in the
backyard of Mayor Jack Matz, with his children. I played with the son of a
former police chief and the son of a mobster. They would a;;do time. They would
all become convicts. They were crooks and robbed decent citizens of an honest
government. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Don’t think for a moment that the crooks only stole
from Clairton residents. Antonio Ripepi allegedly did an awesome job. Corrupt
and rotten public officials, in conjunction with dirty cops, are still allegedly
the norm in western PA, thanks to Antonio and the mob. As an observation, any
town which allows video poker machines is more apt to be corrupt than
not. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">There are two possible explanations for the existence
of illegal gambling when it emerges in any town ... and only two. Either the
elected officials and law enforcement are collecting a monthly stipend from the
mob or else they’re leaving money on the table. Which do you think it
is? </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">The following obituary tells part of the story. By the
way, Bazzanos, Ripepis and Zappalas are all related through marriage and
allegedly so via the alleged family business.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/2008/07/29/Obituary-John-Bazzano-Jr-Member-of-the-dwindling-Pittsburgh-mob/stories/200807290152" target="_blank">http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/2008/07/29/Obituary-John-Bazzano-Jr-Member-of-the-dwindling-Pittsburgh-mob/stories/200807290152</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Allegedly Yours,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Mike Ference</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><b>Editor's Preliminary Note: </b> Below is the transcript of </span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">the alleged recorded</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">interview with The former secretary of Fr John Wellinger's former parish.</span> T<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">he</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">secre</span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">tary alleged that she informed Pittsburgh</span> dio<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">cesan spokesman, Fr. Ron</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Lengwin, about Wellinger in the late 1980s. In contrast, Fr. Lengwin </span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">publicly</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">stated that Wellinger </span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">was not reported to the diocese until 1995. This means</span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">that someone is lying about a Father John Wellinger who walked away from</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">ministry on his own accord. Either </span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Lengwin or the secretary of the late John</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Wellinger were lying.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Now, the red flag about the Wellinger case is that he left ministry via "person-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">al leave." There was no strong disciplinarian enforcing administrative leave</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">on him. In addition, since 1999, I have never heard anything honorable about</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">the very tall Ron Lengwin, by any of my sources. He was repeatedly alleged</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">to be Donald Wuerl's attacking pit bull. A bully ... allegedly. A media person-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">ality of the Southwestern Pennsylvania area said that Lengwin's bully tactic</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">including him mentioning that the diocese was going to have to insist on the</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">media member losing his job, with the insisting being directed directly toward</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">the media member's employer.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">And yes, I surprised to see how tall Lengwin was, as we passed by each oth-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">er in a diocesan building hallway. This was during the Torquato Retaliations.</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Incidentally, when he did say hello to me, he did so with slightly gritted teeth</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">and an ornery facial expression. I kept walking.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">The transcript</span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> below is preceded by an introduction, written the Mike Ference</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">who is no stranger to diocesan intimidation tactics ... allegedly.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">In the Ference case, the Ferences had the right to know the motivating force</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">behind Bobby Butler pulling the trigger of a lethal weapon twice on a school </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">bus of unarmed teenagers. Add to the Serra Catholic equation, the previous-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">ly accused Kenneth Ghastin who was stationed there when the shooting oc-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">curred. Include the accused Fr Michael LeDoux who would be assigned to </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Serra after the Adam Ference shooting. There is something of substance in </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">the Ference case, in as far as goes the motivating force in sweeping the en-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">tire matter under a carpet. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Incidentally, all that is posted herein is presented to you as <b>'alleged,'</b> </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">concerning the contents. Now for site's host, Mike Ference<b>:</b></span>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">This is part of a taped interview with Marta P******* which I had got-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">ten transcribed. It's her describing her attempts to inform the
Pittsburgh </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">diocese of possible sexual abuse, along with drug and alcohol abuse, di-</span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">rected
toward Pittsburgh-area youths by late Catholic priest, Father John </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Wellinger. For a description of
Father John Wellinger’s alleged crimes </span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">visit either <a href="http://www.bishopaccountability.org/" target="_blank">www.bishopaccountability.org</a> or <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/" target="_blank">www.post-gazette.com</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">At least one alleged victim of John Wellinger credits my (<i>Mike Ference's</i>) </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">years of
investigation as helping to force the Pittsburgh Diocese to settle </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">out of court with 31 other
alleged victims of clergy abuse. He's Chris </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mathews, and if you would
like to contact Chris, let me know and I'll </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">pass your phone number or email address to him.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">The Diocese of Pittsburgh could have prevented some tragedy, perhaps.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">If the Pittsburgh Diocese had done the prudent thing, instead of adopting the</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">policy of disregarding people, Chris Mathews
wouldn't have been sexually </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">abused by John Wellinger, as was alleged. Bobby Butler, Jr. may not
have </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">attempted to murder my son. As importantly, Bobby may still be alive to-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">today also, depending if he too were molested by Wellinger. However, the</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Pittsburgh diocese didn't seem to care.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><b>Editor's Note: </b>Keep in mind that, during the deposition of a Clairton law</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">enforcement man, the Ference attorney asked him if he new anything about</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">John Wellinger molesting youth in the Clairton area. The diocesan attorney</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">then banged on the table and starting employing intimidating speech which</span></span><br />
including mention of him filing this, that, and/or the other thing. This made<br />
the Diocese of Pittsburgh (under Donald Wuerl at the time) look extremely<br />
suspicious.<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> All that the witness had to say was, "I know nothing about that."</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Back to guest writer, Mike Ference<b>:</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Had the Diocese of Pittsburgh done the prudent thing, Fr. John Wellinger’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">alleged lover, laicized
Catholic priest, Richard Dorsch, may have been halt-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">ed before he began to sexually abuse
youth. Even Archbishop Bevilacqua </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">may have been prevented from causing so
much pain and agony in the Phil-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">adelphia Archdiocese, as was described in the scathing
report of the grand</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">jury investigation that transpired through the Philadelphia
District Attorney’s </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">office. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Respectfully, Mike Ference</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: And I’m talking to Marta P******* (Mike then spelled her full name), </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> is that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Your telephone number is 412-***-****.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is your mother’s maid-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> en name, if I may ask?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: And you need this?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: I just wanted to identify, again if some one says “<b><i>How do we
know </i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><b><i> we’re talking to Marta</i></b>?” You know what I mean, if that’s okay with </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, that’s okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do not have to give that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: No, I don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: You’d rather not give that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Ok, that’s fine. That’s fine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: I mean, I am in the church year book, if you were to need
anything </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: You are a resident of West Mifflin,
is that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: You have been a member of the Holy Spirit Church for some time
now, </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> for a number of years, since at least 1980 or 81?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Since 1968.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: 1968! Oh my goodness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: At the time a Priest by the name of (John Wellinger) came
there, you </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> had a position with the church if I am not mistaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What position was </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> this?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: I was the Parish secretary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Was this a fulltime or part-time position?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: It was part-time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: If I am not mistaken, you became suspicious of John
Wellinger based </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> upon a couple of things that were occurring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Well, yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a
feeling that there was something not right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: You were also told about a possible assault on a young boy by
the </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> name of (*********).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that
correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: I wouldn’t say assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: What was told to me was that, he had given, I guess, liquor and </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> drugs to this young man, and was taken to the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Right, okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that
Hospital was Shadyside
Hospital, if I am </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> not
mistaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: I am not sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this would
have happened? Do you think this happened </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> sometime in 1987?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah, I guess so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay, so this happened in 1987.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are also aware of the alleg-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> ed abuse that
took place with a young boy by the name of (Chris </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> Mathews) sometime in
1989.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that correct? </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Only that, I knew about it when it was in the paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: When it was publicized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Okay, it was publicized in 2003, or some-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> thing like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: The (*********) boy, I believe his first name is (****)?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, he
would have been about sixteen (16) years of </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> age, do you think?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah, maybe fifteen (15) or sixteen (16). </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: You can be relatively sure that he was under the age of
eighteen (18)?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: (**** *********’s) mother would have been (**** *********), </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: She also worked for the church, or (John Wellinger) at that
time, is </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was the CCD
coordinator. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: So, she was often around the church, and often either with John </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> Wellinger or performing church duties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Things like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> correct? </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Am I permitted to ask you who told you about (****’s)
incident?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe initially you may
have said so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you say it was (****</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> *********) who told you this happened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay, I am sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: It wasn’t her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
know, I can’t remember who told me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: I kinda think it may have been (Michelle ********).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: She was the organist?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: But, I am not sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Put it this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were several people who were well aware </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> of this. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay, Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: So, again, we are proceeding with the assumption that John
Well-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> inger may have given drugs and alcohol to a boy by the name of </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> (**** *********)
sometime in the year of 1987.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boy
was </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> certainly under the age of eighteen (18), and was a minor to the </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> best of
your recollection.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, you also
told me during the conversation we had,</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> I believe back in August, that you had
gone to the Pittsburgh </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> Catholic Diocese to talk about some of your concerns about </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> John Wellinger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: That is correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Would you say that you did that some time in the year 1988.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah, I think so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although, this was before I resigned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: So this was before you resigned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know when you re-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> signed your duties
from the church?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have to
look at my records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Do you have any idea when it might have been?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Um, It was probably in 1988 or 1989. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: If it were 1989, do you have any idea about what month or
any-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> thing like that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: That I resigned? </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Yeah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: It may have been like late summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Late Summer of 1988 or 1989. Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Is there any way you could double check this to see?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yeah, If I am thinking if I still have my pay records or
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> I could look that up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay, very good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: So, you proceeded to go to the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> idea who you might have met with at the diocese?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: I don’t remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
thinking it was (Ron Lengwin) but I am </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> not sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: You are not one hundred (100) percent sure?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well let me ask
you this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get a time frame on this,
was </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> Bishop Bevilacqua that bishop at the time?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yes, he was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: So, this was before Donald Wuerl?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Yes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: How do you know Bishop Bevilacqua was the bishop? Is there </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> anything that you can say for sure other than “you know what, </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> I knew that when
I went down there Bishop Bevilacqua was the </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> bishop, simply because he was the
bishop”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that is suf-</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> ficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Umm, Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could probably
re-establish these dates, if we wanted to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: So, you met with a gentleman who you think may have been Fr Ron </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> Lengwin).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you recall some of the
things you told him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Umm, Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: And, what were they?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Mike: I think, if I am not mistaken, you mentioned that there was a
young </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> boy living at the rectory at the time?</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Marta: Right.</span></span><br />
Mike: Did you tell that to Father Lengwin?</div>
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Marta: Yes.<br />
Mike: Do you recall what else you told to Father (Lengwin)?<br />
Marta: Oh. Probably that a young couple spent the night at the rectory.<br />
They were trying to sneak out the next morning, and I just hap-<br />
pen to come by the stairs when they were trying to get out.<br />
Mike: When you say young couple, do you mean young boy and girl?<br />
Marta: I would say in their early twenties. They were friends of his.<br />
Mike: Do you know who they were?<br />
Marta: No.<br />
Mike: Was that the type of behavior you might have experienced or at<br />
least heard about on a regular basis, or was this something new?<br />
Marta: As far as the young couple, this only happened the one time that<br />
I am aware of.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta: I did tell Father (Wellinger) that I saw them there, and He said it<br />
was only a few friends of his that stayed there.<br />
Mike: Okay. You felt there was much more to it than just people staying<br />
overnight.<br />
Marta: Well, I don’t know. I did not think it was proper for them to stay all<br />
night at the rectory, and then try to sneak out.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: If they had been proper guests there, then why would they be<br />
hiding? Why wouldn't they just come out in the open?<br />
Mike: What makes you think they were actually sneaking out?<br />
Marta: Because, there were people in the dining room. That is where<br />
we would meet to have our staff meetings, and I came to my<br />
office through the living room to the dining room. In that hall<br />
between the rooms is the stairs . As I came around the bend, the<br />
two were coming down the steps. They were trying to be real quiet.<br />
Mike: Do they know that you saw them?<br />
Marta: Yeah.<br />
Mike: You were startled, and they were probably startled, I guess. They<br />
were also kind of embarrassed, too? I am guessing. And then they<br />
just kind of … <br />
Marta: ... left<br />
Mike: They shuffled out without saying hello, goodbye, or anything?<br />
Marta: Yeah.<br />
Mike: Now, what did Father (Lengwin) say about this?<br />
Marta: You know, I really do not recall. I think he was just trying to write<br />
things down, not really making any comments about it.<br />
Mike: And you also told him about the young fellow that was living there<br />
for a time. Do you have any idea on about who he was, or how old<br />
he was?<br />
Marta: I do not know who he was. I would say he could have been around<br />
seventeen or eighteen.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: The only reason I knew, because I did not realize there was anybody<br />
up there, was the telephone bill came in, and I questioned Father<br />
(Wellinger) about it. It was a big, long list. I called the telephone<br />
company about this one number, but I am not sure what number it<br />
was.<br />
Mike: Was it like a 900 number, or something similar?<br />
Marta: Yeah.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: This is the only way I knew, and he said “Oh, that’s ( ).” I am not<br />
certain of what name he gave. He then said “he has been staying up<br />
there, and that would be him. In fact, I think (Maria C******) hap-<br />
pened to pick up the phone, and heard him on the phone.” Although,<br />
nothing was apparently ever said or done, because we got the tele-<br />
phone bill listing all those calls.<br />
Mike: So you told Father (Lengwin) about the boy living up there. Was<br />
there any reaction from Father (Lengwin)?<br />
Marta: Not that I can recall.<br />
Mike: After, was there anything else that you may have told Father (Lengwin)?<br />
Marta: Umm, I am trying to think. <br />
Mike: Did you tell him about the (W********) boy?<br />
Marta: I don’t think I knew that at the time.<br />
Mike: To make along story short, or to paraphrase it, you went to Father<br />
(Lengwin) with concerns about John (Wellinger) because of inap-<br />
propriate behavior. Did you think at the time that it could have<br />
been some type of sexual behavior that may not have been accep-<br />
table for a Priest?<br />
Marta: No, not at that time.<br />
Mike: No, OK. Not at that time. Basically, you were reporting behavior<br />
that in your mind was suspicious.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: OK<br />
Mike: Now, so you left the diocese. How did the diocese react to your<br />
concerns?<br />
Marta: Well, they ... um ... Let’s see: I know that I had put another call in<br />
to them, or they called me. I can’t remember.<br />
Mike: That’s OK<br />
Marta: They said it sounds like people inform you of things, and they made<br />
me feel like I was a busybody or something.<br />
Mike: Like you were sticking your nose into somebody else’s business <br />
where it did not belong, maybe?<br />
Marta: Because people would tell me things. I was they’re secretary, and<br />
people would tell me things. I don’t know. They would express<br />
concerns or thoughts.<br />
Mike: So, people would come to you because they had confidence in you.<br />
Probably also because of the fact that maybe you had been privy to<br />
something, and maybe they felt like they were helping in some way<br />
by putting some of the pieces together by giving you additional in-<br />
formation?<br />
Marta: Or they were curious and wanted to know.<br />
Mike: They may have come to you and said, what do you think? And<br />
people were coming to you about his behavior, showing concern. <br />
As a result of this, you went to whom we think is Father (Lengwin)<br />
and, said, "Hey, I’m not sure if anything is going on, but here is what<br />
we have so far.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: Father (Lengwin) or whomever you spoke with, said “quit being such<br />
a busybody, and mind your own business.” Now, did they send you<br />
any type of a letter or anything at all?<br />
Marta: Oh, yes. They sent me a letter, and asked me if they questioned<br />
(Wellinger) about anything that I said, would I want my name<br />
mentioned?<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: I said no, because I think at that time I was still working.<br />
Mike: Okay, you were still working.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: Did they state anything else in that letter that you can recall?<br />
By the way, do you still have that letter?<br />
Marta: I don’t know. I would have to look.<br />
Mike: Okay, you would have to look. Do you recall anything else in that<br />
letter that may have been stated, or who the letter may have come<br />
from?<br />
Marta: I know it came from the diocese.<br />
Mike: Okay. Have you ever told anybody else about this, such as law en-<br />
forcement officials or anybody else that may have been able to help<br />
in this situation? I think you did as much as you could with as much<br />
information as you had. Is that a reasonable assumption on my part?<br />
I mean, you don’t have the authority to arrest anybody. For you to<br />
question (Wellinger), that really doesn’t do any good, although you<br />
may have questioned him, or put him on the spot at times. <br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: That doesn’t mean he’s going to tell you the truth or anything like that.<br />
Marta: Yeah, I know.<br />
Mike: Did you ever talk to anybody else about this that may have been in a<br />
position to get some things done?<br />
Marta: I’m not sure. At one time, I think I did talk to one of the parish<br />
council members.<br />
Mike: And who would that have been?<br />
Marta: That would have been (Rick M**********), but it would not have<br />
been about this. It would have been more about how the money was<br />
being used.<br />
Mike: I see.<br />
Marta: This would have involved with the parish share money.<br />
Mike: Okay. Now when you are talking about money, are you talking about<br />
inappropriate expenditures in any way, or question about where some<br />
of the money was?
Was it something like that?<br />
Marta: Well, yeah. The parish share money wasn’t necessarily going to that.<br />
I didn’t know where it was going, you know.<br />
Mike: Okay. Did anybody ever look into that?<br />
Marta: I don’t think so.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: You know. Nothing ever came back to me.<br />
Mike: Okay. And what was that gentleman’s name again that was on the<br />
parish council?<br />
Marta: That was (Rick Manischevic).<br />
Mike: Is he still a member of the parish council?<br />
Marta: No.<br />
Mike: Okay. Is he still involved in the church in any way?<br />
Marta: yes. I believe he trains the ultra service.<br />
Mike: Were there any people who may have covered for John (Wellinger)<br />
if he did anything wrong that the church?<br />
Marta: Oh, sure.<br />
Mike: Who do you think some of those people might have been?<br />
Marta: Well, (Marie Capana), would have been one.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: (Marina C*******) I think too, and there may be one more,<br />
although I’m not sure.<br />
Mike: Okay.
Mike: Do you mean (Marina Cataro)?<br />
Marta: Yes.<br />
Mike: I tried talking to her, and she wouldn’t talk to me.<br />
Marta: No, she wouldn’t.<br />
Mike: Do you think she may know something?<br />
Marta: I am sure, yes, she would know something. I am sure somebody<br />
would have said something to her.<br />
Mike: Okay. Did you ever discuss anything like this with (Gretchen<br />
W*****)?<br />
Marta: Yes.<br />
Mike: She is the sister of mercy, I believe?<br />
Marta: Right.
Mike: I think (Gretchen W*****) had some suspicions con-<br />
cerning (Wellinger)?<br />
Marta: Oh Yeah.<br />
Mike: Do you know if she ever went someone at the diocese to say, "Hey,<br />
something is amiss here?"<br />
Marta: I don’t know that. I kind of think not, but I don’t know.<br />
Mike: Okay. Any idea what she may have known?<br />
Marta: Umm, Well...<br />
Mike: Did she know about the (W********) boy?<br />
Marta: I believe she did.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: All I remember her telling him was that she was not going to fight<br />
his demons. That’s all I can remember.<br />
Mike: I see. I’m trying to think if there’s anything else. Somewhere around<br />
1988 or 1989, you resigned as the parish secretary, but you still stayed<br />
on as a member. No one was going to keep you out of a church you be-<br />
long to and helped build, and all that kind of stuff. Somewhere around<br />
1991 is when (Wellinger) left, is that correct?<br />
Marta: I believe so.<br />
Mike: Do you remember anything surrounding when he left? Usually when<br />
a priest leaves, there is some type of formal announcement like in a<br />
month I’ll be leaving. Do you recall anything like this with ...<br />
(Wellinger)?<br />
Marta: No, I don’t recall that. All I recall at that time is that Bishop (Boal)<br />
came to our church or some type of function, maybe for confirmation,<br />
although I am not sure, and within like two weeks (Wellinger) was<br />
gone. I just thought, well, somebody with some type of clout may<br />
have sent the bishop here.<br />
Mike: Okay, but you’re not completely sure.<br />
Marta: No.<br />
Mike: You do, however, know where he stayed when he left Holy Spirit<br />
Church.<br />
Marta: Right.
Mike: Where did he stay? I think he first went to Allentown.<br />
Mike: But you said ...<br />
Marta: I think he did stay with … but then he went to Allentown as a priest.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: After that, I think he went to St. Francis with Father (Dorsch).<br />
Mike: When you say he went to Allentown, he left Holy Spirit Church<br />
abruptly?<br />
Marta: Yes.<br />
Mike: And, was immediately assigned to a church in Allentown?<br />
Was that the way it went?<br />
Marta: Yes.<br />
Mike: If I’m not mistaken, Allentown may be a separate borough,<br />
but it is also part of Pittsburgh, near Carrick and that area.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: And then from there, he may have stayed just for a short time. <br />
Now, how do you know? Did he just go down to St. Francis on<br />
his own, or was he like an assistant pastor there? Do you have<br />
any idea?<br />
Marta: I don’t’ know. I think he was just staying there. I got a copy of<br />
a letter that he wrote, although I’m not sure where I got to copy<br />
from or who I got the copy from, to some friends. In his letter<br />
he was just complaining about what he had been through over the<br />
past year or so. It was written on stationery from St. Francis.<br />
Mike: Okay. The reason why you are familiar with St. Francis, which is<br />
the Church in the McKees Rocks area, you were a parishioner there<br />
at one time?<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: So you’re very familiar. You are assuming that, if you received a<br />
letter or saw a letter from St Francis, he had some connection there?<br />
That’s where he was staying there as a result, or did he mention in<br />
the letter that he was staying there?<br />
Marta: I believe he did mention it<br />
Mike: Okay. He wouldn’t have sent a copy of that letter to you right?<br />
Marta: Oh no.<br />
Mike: Any idea who he sent that letter to?<br />
Marta: I’m not sure. It might’ve been Marina or it could have been ... I really<br />
don’t know.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta: All I know is that it was a copy. Somebody had made a copy of<br />
the letter.<br />
Mike: Okay. So we are assuming that, from this letter, he stayed with<br />
Father (Dorsch) at St. Francis in McKees Rocks. Father (Dorsch)<br />
was the head pastor there for some time.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: This would’ve been around 1991 maybe 1992 correct?<br />
Marta: I think so<br />
Mike: Are you aware that Father (Dorsch) was eventually convicted of<br />
sexual abuse?<br />
Marta: I am aware now yes. I was unaware of it then.<br />
Mike: Do you know who made you aware of that?<br />
Marta: I believe you did.
Mike: Okay.<br />
Mike: Do you know if Father (Dorsch) was a regular visitor from time to<br />
time with John (Wellinger)?<br />
Marta: Yeah, I think he did visit sometimes.<br />
Mike: Okay. Did he ever mention where he met Father (Dorsch)?<br />
Marta: No.<br />
Mike: No, okay. At this point, is there anything you would like to add <br />
to our conversation that you can think of?<br />
Marta: I don’t know. I just know that I did not have a good feeling from<br />
the time he came there, and when he was instilled as pastor, I re-<br />
member him mentioning that I think he came from Clairton to<br />
Holy Spirit.<br />
Mike: Right<br />
Marta: He also mentioned that his friends gave him different gifts, and<br />
some more drugs.<br />
Mike: He indicated that his friends had given him drugs as a kind of<br />
going away gift?<br />
Marta: Yeah<br />
Mike: He didn’t mention that those friends were?<br />
Marta: No, Just that they were friends from Clairton.<br />
Mike: Do you think he was serious?<br />
Marta: Well yeah.<br />
Mike: In other words he talked about this in such a fashion, that if I were<br />
to say to you even though I don’t know you that well, “Oh. I just<br />
left my old job, and those folks were kind enough, they gave me a<br />
bottle of wine, they gave me watch,” it was that carefree?<br />
Marta: Yeah<br />
Mike: And the way I describe it to you, it’s even believable, so that even<br />
though he is … ?
For someone of our age, for someone to say, "Oh<br />
they gave me drugs, …" <br />
Marta: I don’t think he said drugs, I think he said goodies from my runner.<br />
Mike: So he even describe it is marijuana?<br />
Marta: Yes<br />
Mike: So he didn’t leave it as drugs, he said marijuana?<br />
Marta: Right<br />
Mike: Do you think he abused drugs on a regular basis, or some type of<br />
basis?<br />
Marta: Alcohol, as far as I know.<br />
Mike: What do you think his relationship was with Maria (C******)?<br />
Marta: Well, I don’t know. I guess I always thought they were a twosome.<br />
I mean, she practically lived there.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta: I believe there was another woman, although I cant’ remember her<br />
name.<br />
Mike: Was it Virginia (Voytech)?<br />
Marta: Yes, She always hung around there too. She was a nurse. She would<br />
come to the rectory, and stay there all day.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta:She was also there sometimes after I left.<br />
Mike: Just a few more things. You knew (Marinell), which was<br />
(Wellinger’s) sister?<br />
Marta: Yeah.<br />
Mike: And that’s where complete name Marinell?<br />
Marta: M-A-R-I-N-E-L-L, that’s it.<br />
Mike: Do you recall an outburst, or know anything about a public out-<br />
burst, in the church after or during Mass by I believe it was Bob<br />
(W********)?<br />
Marta: That wasn’t in the church, it was in the parking lot.<br />
Mike: Okay Who was this outburst aimed at, (Wellinger) himself?<br />
Marta: Oh yeah.<br />
Mike: Okay. Were there people around, who could’ve heard this?<br />
Marta: Oh yes, we were having a staff meeting that morning.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: And his wife, Ann, was of course at the staff meeting.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta: And he was yelling. As a matter of fact, he came into the<br />
rectory, grabbed her, and pulled her out. He had been drink-<br />
ing. I think he may have had a gun, or someone mentioned<br />
that he had a gun.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta: I think it was Maria or someone who took (Wellinger) out the<br />
back door.<br />
Mike: Okay<br />
Marta: And then they said that we should leave too.<br />
Mike: Okay, did Bob (W********) explain to anybody what was going<br />
on? Why he was angry, why he had a gun, or why he wanted to<br />
talk to (Wellinger)?<br />
Marta: No, except I guess that Ann was kind of taken with him. I don’t<br />
know.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: I guess they would like to have lunch together, or do things<br />
together.<br />
Mike: Was this before or after his son ended up in Shadyside hospital?<br />
Marta: I think it was after.<br />
Mike: So, if it was after, he was also angry because of what happened<br />
to his son, and angry because his wife was still involved with<br />
(Wellinger).<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: It seems to me that one of the things that (Wellinger) used was<br />
women to help disguise his other bad habits.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: I would go so far as to say that, if I were a betting man and I’m<br />
not sure which way I would bet if someone were to say to me.<br />
Do you think John (Wellinger) and Ann (*********) had an<br />
affair? I would not know which way to bet, but even if you<br />
flipped a coin, you could win. Is that a fair way of analyzing<br />
that situation?<br />
Marta: Well for some reason, I just never thought of it that way. <br />
I thought it was more on her part than on his.<br />
Mike: Okay. So she was truly infatuated with him much like Virginia<br />
(V*****)?<br />
Marta: No. It was more like Maria.<br />
Mike: So these women were infatuated with him, and John (Wellinger)<br />
knew how to use that?<br />
Marta: Yeah.<br />
Mike: This included selecting **** ********* as a victim, given he<br />
knew he had an edge. This may have helped him in some way.<br />
Marta: I don’t know.<br />
Mike: I, myself, can’t think like a pedophile. But, I’m guessing that<br />
this may have played a role.<br />
Mike: Is there anything else you would like to add?<br />
Marta: No not that I can think of.<br />
Mike: When Bob ********* had this outburst, was Marinell there?<br />
Marta: Oh. No, I was still working there.<br />
Mike: So, Marinell replaced you?<br />
Marta: Yes.<br />
Mike: Okay very good. When Bob ********* had this outburst, even<br />
though he didn’t say anything about his son being hospitalized,<br />
you’re saying that everyone knew, at that point, what was going<br />
on?<br />
Marta: Yeah, it had kind of gone around, you know.<br />
Mike: Is it fair to say that it may be? ... Let’s say there are a thousand<br />
people who are members of the Holy Spirit Church. It would<br />
be real easy to say that for 50 of those parishioners, the (Wellin-<br />
ger) gossip and scandal may have been common knowledge.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: And the reason I asked that question is because I talked to Frank,<br />
the former police chief, who told me that his neighbor said this<br />
was all common knowledge.<br />
Marta: Yeah.<br />
Mike: That he was sex idiot? <br />
Marta: There could have been. Like I said, I don’t think I heard anything<br />
else other than what I told you.<br />
Mike: Right<br />
Marta: If Frank knew, I’m not sure where he lived. Jim Matthews also<br />
knew of this stuff at the time.<br />
Mike: He was also a police officer.<br />
Marta: Right.<br />
Mike: Frank (Defazio)? Frank (DeFazio) was the chief of police at the<br />
time, but he tells me he didn’t know anything.<br />
Marta: Okay<br />
Mike: I can tell you this much, or do you think he is not necessarily<br />
telling the truth?<br />
Marta: I don’t know. Do the policemen have to report to them if anybody<br />
would call or anything?<br />
Mike: Yeah, that’s right, were the policemen summoned to any of these<br />
things?<br />
Marta: Yes. They did call the police when Bob ********* came to the<br />
rectory, but also the police came to my house one night because<br />
they were trying to get the money to (Wellinger) to get it put away<br />
for the night, and they could not locate him. So they came here to<br />
ask me for the keys for the rectory. I guess when Jim came back,<br />
he gave me the keys to the rectory and told me that (Wellinger) was<br />
passed out.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: I guess that was sort of hush-hush.<br />
Mike: Do you think any police knew about the outburst that Bob *******<br />
had at the rectory? Were any police called for that, and would any<br />
West Mifflin police at least be aware of something like that?<br />
Marta: I would think they would be aware of it, because I’m almost sure<br />
we called the police.<br />
Mike: Okay, you did call police. Who would’ve been the one to call the<br />
police?<br />
Marta: It wasn’t me. I’m not sure. It could have been Maria or Virginia.<br />
Mike: It sounds like people were legitimately scared, also because Bob<br />
had gun.<br />
Marta: Well yeah.<br />
Mike: Or least people thought he had a gun, or that he might’ve had a gun.<br />
Marta: Right<br />
Mike: Do you know if any of this was reported diocese?<br />
Marta: Well it must have been because, who else could have restricted him<br />
from coming on church property?<br />
Mike: In other words, you are aware of the fact that Bob ********* re-<br />
ceived a letter from the lawyer for the diocese to stay away from<br />
the church?<br />
Marta: Well all I know is that, I was told that he was not allowed to be on<br />
church grounds. That is all I know.<br />
Mike: Okay, you don’t know. Who told you this? Was it (Wellinger)?<br />
Marta: No wasn’t him. I guess it was just a rumor or common knowledge.<br />
Mike: Okay. Sr Gretchen would have probably known about all this stuff?<br />
Marta: Oh yeah.<br />
Mike: Did she live there at the time?<br />
Marta: No.<br />
Mike: No? Okay. She would have known about it certainly ... <br />
Marta: If not from others, then at least from me.<br />
Mike: Okay.<br />
Marta: I think she might’ve been there that day, as I think she was already<br />
on staff.<br />
Mike: Okay. That’s right. She would have been there for the staff meeting.<br />
<br />
I want to thank you again Marta. I’m not exactly sure what’s going to happen.<br />
But again, I applaud you for your willingness to help because this has truly<br />
been a tragedy, and I don’t like stuff like this going on, and I don’t like stuff<br />
like this being covered up. We will see what happens. Again, Michelle ****<br />
would be willing to help me? I have already talked to her. There are some<br />
things now that I just want to get squared away. Anyway, I reserve the right<br />
to give you a call back. Thank you again. Bye-bye.<br />
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<b>Preliminary Note: </b>Keep in mind that hushing the attempted murder<br />
of Adam Ference and the ensuing suicide of the shooter was advanta-<br />
geous to Wuerl's public image. After all, the attempted murder took<br />
place on Pittsburgh diocesan Catholic school grounds. This was also<br />
the era of Pittsburgh police abuse, and the abuse was so bad at the<br />
time that it made its way to MSNBC when Geraldo Rivera was there.<br />
<br />
In fact, the abuse was so bad that it ended in the killing of a Pittsburgh<br />
steeler's unarmed cousin, simply for driving his cousin's Jaguar at night.<br />
Clergy abuse and police abuse in the same geographic area had a con-<br />
verse relationship at the time, comprising arrogance. Police were re-<br />
ported in the newspaper as stopping motorists for the pettiest reasons.<br />
It was very evil times in Pittsburgh. <br />
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<b>Added Note: </b> Concerning the time span pertinent to this article, it was<br />
recently alleged by a specific source that the Chief of the McKeesport<br />
Police Department was repeatedly asked by an animal rescue charity to<br />
intervene and investigate many allegations of missing pets, animal abuse,<br />
and sounds of animals in extreme pain at night<b> ...</b> out in the woods, in<br />
the McKeesport/Clairton Pennsylvania region. This involved the time<br />
span of Adam Ference's attempted murder.<br />
<br />
From time to time, the head of the animal rescue charity even went in-<br />
to the woods and collected the physical aftermath of animal cruelty and<br />
apparent animal sacrifice. He is now deceased, but he lived in the Pitts-<br />
burgh suburb of Forest Hills at the time.<br />
<br />
As far as the relatively new source remembers, it was a matter of com-<br />
mon knowledge that a very sick and twisted habit of kidnapping and<br />
torturing animals onto death existed in the Clairton and McKeesport<br />
area. Now, Pittsburgh radio mentioned such a thing, but the exact re-<br />
gion of the Pittsburgh area where it was occurring was not mentioned<br />
on air. Plus, seminars on the occult where being offered to the local<br />
public at the time, to educate people on the practices of Satanism and<br />
the such, due to the things transpiring at the time, including suicide.<br />
<br />
This means that there is plausible evidence that occult practices actually<br />
were occurring during the time Adam Ference was shot on a school bus.<br />
This makes the truncated and suddenly abandoned investigation of the<br />
attempted murder of Adam something pertinent within itself. This is be-<br />
cause the youth who shot Adam and then immediately shot himself was<br />
allegedly linked to the occult, as well as having a confirmed link to the<br />
priest John Wellinger who actually left the priesthood ministry on his<br />
own accord, in the form of a personal leave taken in 1995.<br />
<br />
Take note that a certain individual pertinent to the John Wellinger case<br />
was recently contacted by a credentialed journalist. This was a person<br />
who allegedly warned the Diocese of Pittsburgh personnel about John<br />
Wellinger, only to be ignore. The contacted person said that he/she did<br />
not want to make any comment about this. None the less, at the time of<br />
the reporting, the notorious Anthony Bevilacqua was the bishop of Pitts-<br />
burgh. Now, Donald Wuerl's cover-ups have finally been uncovered, at<br />
least in part. The question is what Pittsburgh area cover-ups of Anthony<br />
Bevilacqua remain concealed.<br />
<br />
Now for Mike Ference's article<b>:</b><br />
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<br />
Was Public Safety Director William Scully being a good cop when he<br />
told my wife and me that the investigation into the attempted murder of<br />
our son was quashed by McKeesport, PA police? If so, then within a<br />
few weeks Scully could have proven himself, being that he was given<br />
the chance to do so.<br />
<br />
It was during a late February, I believe, when Scully telephoned me and<br />
relayed something about two teenagers who were friends of my son's<br />
shooter. They were allegedly seen by two State troopers as having exit-<br />
ed a mine opening in a wooded area known as the flats. It was not far<br />
from the shooter’s house. In fact, it was near an area that laid claim to<br />
Satanic rites, in as so far as went the general allegations of the area.<br />
<br />
The two witnesses were PA State Troopers assigned to patrol the city<br />
of Clairton. According to Scully, the shooter and his alleged gang of<br />
devil worshipers loafed-around in the area. This was the same area<br />
where local townsfolk vocally suspected that were animals being ruth-<br />
lessly sacrificed. These neighbors claimed to have repeatedly heard<br />
the moans and cries of dogs and cats at night. The practice was alleg-<br />
ed to have been occurring somewhere in the Pittsburgh area, even on<br />
local Pittsburgh radio. Therefore, it was a credible suspicion.<br />
<br />
If Scully and the aggrieved parents were correct about the occult ritual<br />
allegations, then this latest development could have shed light on wheth-<br />
er or not there had been any accomplices in my son's attempted murder.<br />
It could have indicated that there existed an occult cabal that might have<br />
influenced the boy who was to shoot my son. There was now a chance<br />
to compel any existent rogue teenagers to tell the truth without first be-<br />
ing required to get their parents’ permission to even question them.<br />
<br />
According to Scully, the two boys wo were allegedly observed crawling<br />
out of the mineshaft were named Rxxxxx and Jxxxx. Both individuals<br />
were good friends of the shooter and both of their full names were list-<br />
ed on the notes that Scully provided me earlier that January, when he<br />
first paid a visit to my house and informed me that the investigation in-<br />
to my son's attempted murder was quashed. <br />
<br />
Scully said that the Bureau of Mines was contacted at a government<br />
facility in South Park, PA. According to him, a representative was go-<br />
ing to come out the next day and explore the mine which was alleged<br />
to be a teenage hideout. Nothing was done to secure the site except<br />
to place a steel plate in front of the entrance and then to drop a bucket<br />
of dirt in front of it.<br />
<br />
I quickly explained to Scully that, if there were incriminating evidence<br />
inside of the mineshaft, the teenage boys would simply shovel the dirt<br />
off the steel plate, go into the mine shaft, and remove the incriminating<br />
contents before sunrise. Scully wasn't impressed. He instead contin-<br />
ued to give his assurances that everything would be okay. As usual,<br />
Scully was wrong. <br />
<br />
In not feeling comfortable about Scully’s mineshaft inspection plan, I<br />
tried to contact my attorney Al Yates, the first attorney my wife and<br />
I retained to represent my son’s interests. However, Yates was out<br />
of town, in Erie, PA <b>...</b> according to his secretary.<br />
<br />
I then called Scully back, half-threatening to make myself a watchman<br />
of the mineshaft, along with my oldest son and a pair of shotguns. Of<br />
courese, I knew better and couldn’t risk another family tragedy.<br />
<br />
When Yates arrived back in Pittsburgh, I relayed the happenings to him.<br />
Yates said that he would have hired a security firm to guard the area for<br />
the 24 hours or so before the Bureau of Mines inspector arrived. Sadly,<br />
it was too late. Scully called me the next day, to report that the dirt had<br />
been removed from the steel plate and whatever was in the mineshaft <br />
was gone, except for a few cigarette butts and some trash. Scully said<br />
it was obvious that whatever was stored in the mine shaft had been re-<br />
moved.<br />
<br />
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty, and it's obvious that Scully needed<br />
to come up with a better game plan. At this point a question rings out<b>: </b><br />
<b> </b>Since when do two PA State troopers get out of their cruiser and then<br />
randomly walk through the woods, only to find two lads attached to the<br />
shooter of my son coming out of a mine shaft? Now, you cannot drive<br />
a police cruiser to the area. So, the Scully's story is suspicious. How-<br />
ever, if Scully would have said that the boys were followed from the<br />
town streets into the woods, then Scully would have been believable.<br />
Even at that, the police officiers would have eventually been noticed<br />
by the teenagers, and the boys would have avoided the mineshaft.<br />
<br />
For starters, Scully should have notified the McKeesport Police. This<br />
is because they were the ones responsible for investigating the attempt-<br />
ed murder of my son. An even better option would have been to have<br />
called PA State Trooper Corporal Robert Griffin. Griffin was brought<br />
into the investigation near the beginning of it, and he could have done a<br />
competent investigation of the mine, being that he was an official expert<br />
in Satanism and the occult <b>... </b>not anyone from the US Bureau of Mines.<br />
<br />
Now, it was Scully and Griffin who went to the shooter’s home, in search<br />
of a Satanic Bible and other evidence of devil worship. Next is the event<br />
where two teenage boys, friends of the shooter, were allegedly witnessed<br />
by law enforcement officers as having come out of the mineshaft of a geo-<br />
graphic area already determined to be a place of interest in the attempted<br />
murder of my son. Yet, Scully blows it. Did he purposely sabotage it?<br />
<br />
Over a year later I would meet with Griffin, to share all the information<br />
I gathered in my investigation. As I relayed the details of the mine shaft<br />
incident to Griffin, I could see his face expressing increasing disdain at<br />
the description of Scully's game plan. Finally, there is the matter of the<br />
teenaged boys allegedly coming and going in and out of the mine shaft<b>,</b><br />
as a matter of habit, probably on a daily basis, for years. Yet, Scully<br />
made the decision to wait almost 24 hours before allowing someone to<br />
inspect what could have either been a crime scene or what may have<br />
solved the attempted murder of my son.<br />
<br />
The fact that someone would have gone to lengths to dig through the<br />
mineshaft entrance is sufficient evidence to show that there was some-<br />
thing critical in the mine to hide from law enforcement authorities. This<br />
means that the police had to right to have ended the investigation. This<br />
also brings us to a question<b>: </b> Who tipped off the people who came un-<br />
der the cover of night and dug their way into the mine shaft? Exactly<br />
how many people who knew about the Bureau of Mines inspection that<br />
was to be held the following day? Who has the mole? This was a mat-<br />
ter of obstruction of justice, yet no one investigated it.<br />
<br />
It gets to the point where you wonder if whether or not Scully has blood<br />
on his hands to conceal. Did he let deliberately set the mineshaft up for<br />
a midnight invasion? In fact, did Scully have anything to do with the fact<br />
that the Eddie Pastore murder of 1989 remained unsolved? After all, it<br />
occurred on Scully’s watch. Well, for whatever it’s worth, know that I<br />
continued to trust Scully, as he played the role of good cop to perfection.<br />
<br />
Years after the attempted murder of my son, I came to realize what a<br />
scoundrel former Clairton Public Safety Director William Scully was,<br />
in my opinion<b> ... </b>according to my personal experience of a person who<br />
did little more than cause me grief. For what it’s worth, Scully would<br />
become the director of security at ALCOSAN, an institute alleged to<br />
be amongst Allegheny County’s most corrupt organizations ... allegedly.<br />
<br />
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. was given a<br />
seat on the board of the US Catholic Conference of Bishops' National<br />
Review Board. Zappala was appointed to the board on June 1, 2010. <b> </b><br />
<b>It was the same day when a young man committed suicide. The </b><br />
<b>young man was a two-time victim of the Kids for Cash racket. </b><br />
<br />
At least two Pennsylvania judges sent youngsters to private detentions<br />
centers that ever so coincidentally were owned by Stephen Zappala’s<br />
brother Gregory. A business partner of Gregory who is now serving<br />
time in prison originally alleged that he was forced to pay the judges.<br />
In fact, one judge, at his sentencing hearing, asked why Gregory was<br />
never interviewed by the feds. He needed to have been asked if he<br />
were being forced to make the pay the kickbacks. In fact, he need-<br />
ed to have been asked many things.<b> </b><br />
<br />
<b>Editor's note:</b><br />
<br />
During Zappala's watch, there was once the attempt to file summary<br />
offense charges against Donald Wuerl and his former personal secre-<br />
tary, James Torquato, on account of the first wave of the Torquato<br />
Retaliations that Wuerl let go on and on and on and on. Ironically,<br />
shortly after the filing of a complaint against Wuerl, the 2nd Wave<br />
of the Torquato Retaliations occurred. This time, it included the in-<br />
volvement of the McCandless Twp Police.<br />
<br />
Despite the hard copy evidence, Wuerl was charged with nothing.<br />
Neither was the Fr. James Torquato whose retaliations could have<br />
caused someone severe harm<b> . . . </b> even physical harm. Interesting<br />
how a ruthless priest who spent seven years refusing to keep his<br />
homosexual hands to himself thought nothing of endangering<br />
people. For more on that particular scandal, see<b>:</b><br />
<br />
<b> </b> <a href="http://www.donaldwuerl.com/JamesTorquato.html" target="_blank">http://www.donaldwuerl.com/JamesTorquato.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.awuerlofhurt.com/2013_11_01_archive.html" target="_blank">http://www.awuerlofhurt.com/2013_11_01_archive.html</a><br />
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<b>Editor's introductory note:</b><br />
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The logical surmise here is that<br />
Donald Wuerl either had some-<br />
thing to do with Mike Ference<br />
being forced out of his manage-<br />
ment post or else Mike was be-<br />
en being pressured to resign,on<br />
account of his company's fear<br />
of future retaliation by Wuerl,<br />
once Wuerl got drift of the fact<br />
that Mike intended to pursue<br />
the investigation into his sons'<br />
attempted murder.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The company had local Catholic institutions who were customers. If<br />
Wuerl decided to press a retaliation button, those Catholic institutions<br />
would no longer be lucrative clients of Mike's former employer.<br />
<br />
The time line coincidence of the pressure tactic (to get rid of Mike) was<br />
shortly after Mike's family received a small out of court settlement for<br />
the attempted murder of his son, Adam. The other thing that occurred<br />
at this time was that Mike let it be known that he was still concerned<br />
about getting to the bottom of the attempted murder.<br />
<br />
It's reasonable to propose that the attempted murder of Adam Ference<br />
and Mike's insistence on getting to the bottom of it ultimately resulted<br />
in Mike losing his management position, whether Wuerl's minions ac-<br />
tively sought to have Mike disappear or not. This is because of fear of<br />
a Donald Wuerl who did apply a Corruption of Blood retaliation on the<br />
children of those parents of the now-defunct Risen Lord Parish School<br />
who protested against Wuerl in front of TV cameras.<br />
<br />
In addition, Mike was a National Accounts Manager. This explains why<br />
he was so meticulous in finding information on his son's attempted. He<br />
has a professional mindset. His investigation was a matter of a profes-<br />
sional employing fine-tuned social skills upon person after person. He<br />
didn't have the rank & file mindset. He didn't have a blue collar mindset.<br />
<br />
If not for thieinvestigation that the police willingly aborted, no one any-<br />
where would have learned that one of Cardinal Bernard Law's accused<br />
was at Serra Catholic the day Adam was shot. Neither would anyone<br />
have learned that there were extended efforts to have the epidemic of<br />
animal sacrifice in the Clairton/McKeesport area curbed in the midst<br />
of an allegedly uncooperative McKeesport Police Department. Nor<br />
would anyone have uncovered a second suicide related to Fr. John<br />
Wellinger.<br />
<br />
There's more that was learned through this investigation, but the rules<br />
of confidentiality can't reveal it at this time. None the less, Mike spent<br />
years on his own. Mike isn't alone any longer. He has allies now. By<br />
now, the Diocese of Pittsburgh should have reached to him. Its admin-<br />
istrators ignored him ... a guy whose son got a bullett in the back of his<br />
head while on Pittsburgh diocesan school grounds. Looks bad for pub-<br />
lic relations purposes, alone. There are questions that have never been<br />
answered. They were points of evidence uncovered which have yet to<br />
receive a response. Such a thing is known as cover-up, as with the case<br />
of Sotak, Torquato, and others. Now for Mike<b>:</b><br />
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It was mid June 1992. I had just returned from vacation and was back<br />
at work. It was Monday morning at the SYSCO Foodservice plant in<br />
Harmony, PA. The first thing on the agenda was the traditional hellos<br />
and tell you about my vacation later talk. It was followed by my new<br />
boss, Todd Ladfriend, handing me $350 to $375 in cash. It was con-<br />
test winnings.<br />
<br />
Next on the agenda was a reminder by Landfried that I was to have my<br />
employee-review shortly. It would be the first formal review I ever had<br />
while at this company, despite the fact that I had been working there for<br />
seven years. In the past, my reviews simply involved a handshake, a bon-<br />
us check, and a thank-you for all the things that I had done for the com-<br />
pany in question. What was most gratifying about the past reviews was<br />
the point in the conversation where the CEO would mention the special<br />
tasks or projects that I would tackle and excel at doing.<br />
<br />
I was the go-to-guy for projects that no other employee had any exper-<br />
ience at doing. In fact, I especially enjoyed those assignments. There<br />
were years, at least one or two of them, where a handshake and a few<br />
good words sufficed as my review. My performance was never brought<br />
into question, even though some years were more profitable than other<br />
ones. Plus, a bonus for me and other employees wasn’t always on the<br />
table. This means that I had to earn my bonuses.<br />
<br />
This review was different. New management was in charge. I was even<br />
given two pages of questions to fill out before leaving for vacation. The<br />
review would come just a few months after attorney Ken Behrend co-<br />
erced my son and me into accepting the pittance of a settlement put on<br />
the table after I called a halt to the lawsuit that I filed against the Pitts-<br />
burgh diocese and Donald Wuerl.<br />
<br />
Keep in mind that the year was 1992. I was only barely aware of my<br />
battle with the Pittsburgh diocese and others. I was too trusting, think-<br />
ing that living in America meant that I was free from being victimized by<br />
corruption. All toll, I worked for the Pittsburgh Branch of the SYSCO<br />
Corporation for six years. In fact, I had worked first for Deaktor Pro-<br />
visions until we were bought out by SYSCO. I started on my wife’s<br />
birthday and ended my career on the same date.<br />
<br />
Upon entering the review, I was quickly informed that complaints had<br />
been lodged against me by my customers, while I was on vacation. It<br />
turned out that, according to my customers, none of them lodged any<br />
complaint. None the less, the complaints were so severe that they war-<br />
ranted me stepping down from my position as the National Accounts<br />
Manager where I was responsible for managing and maintaining good<br />
relations with the companies' top customers.<br />
<br />
My first question to the vice president of sales was “<i><b>Are there any op-</b></i><br />
<i><b>tions for me</b></i>?" No was the answer. I asked for twenty-four hours, be-<br />
fore giving my decision and I was granted it. My hour-long drive home<br />
seemed even longer this time.<br />
<br />
I knew that the claims of customer complaints were lies. This is because<br />
I had established quite a reputation within the food service industry, and<br />
quite frankly, I had been approached and offered jobs by two competit-<br />
ors not long before this review. The truth is that I had most of the major<br />
local Catholic institutions as customers. This included Seton Hill College,<br />
La Rouche College, Duquesne University, Carlow College, and Mercy<br />
Hospital. There were other customers, such as Slippery Rock College.<br />
<br />
I contacted my customers one by one, asking them if they had made the<br />
customer complaint against me. No one did. At least this is what I was<br />
told. None the less, I asked each one to send a statement to me, saying<br />
that they were satisfied with my service and conduct. Samples of the<br />
letters of recommendation are posted below, needless to say.<br />
<br />
I openly answered questions about the attempted murder of my son, as<br />
well as answering questions about the Occult preoccupation of my son's<br />
attempted murderer. I also discussed what I perceived to be an introduc-<br />
tion to a bribe that was in the process of being offered to me by Archab-<br />
bot Douglas Nowicki of St. Vincent College. In other words, I was still<br />
a threat to Donald Wuerl, the bishop whose nexus with the homosexual<br />
was being uncovered by Randy Engel and her confreres. Therefore, the<br />
company feared Wuerl's retaliation of cutting off all Catholic business ac-<br />
counts.<br />
<br />
The logic goes this way<b>:</b> If I didn’t have a job, I wouldn’t be much of a<br />
threat to Wuerl, in having to spend my time financially surviving. I would<br />
leave SYSCO with a few thousand dollars in the bank, all the while hav-<br />
ing a mortgage, tuition for my daughter’s private schooling, and a host of<br />
other bills, such as utilities. I was forty years old and closer to being broke<br />
than financially comfortable. SYSCO would even fight my unemployment<br />
compensation claim.<br />
<br />
There was a strange coincidence at the Pittsburgh Branch of SYCSO<br />
Corp. In 1989, a few priests were prosecuted for savagely abusing a<br />
couple of young boys in Washington County. I have no way of know-<br />
ing if this is true or not, but an employee of SYSCO Foodservice said<br />
to me that his stepson was one of the victims of the pedophile priests.<br />
In addition, in was at the SYSCO sales meeting room where Nowicki<br />
spoke what was construed by me as the overture of bribe, to send my<br />
son to St. Vincent's College where Nowicki ever so coincidentally was<br />
to be the archabbot there.<br />
<br />
I emphasize that I have no way of knowing if this is true or not, because,<br />
as far as I understand, the case had been sealed. What that stepfather<br />
shared with me, if its true, would constitute a smoking gun in my case,<br />
as far as goes motive in having me become unemployed. This would be<br />
another reason why Donald Wuerl would have benefited in me becom-<br />
ing unemployed and detached from Sysco, whether he actively sougth to<br />
have me dismissed or not. What is for certain was that, in the Pittsburgh<br />
area, there was an underlying fear of Wuerl in general, in terms of his abil-<br />
ity to abuse power. Wuerl was neither admired nor trusted. The many<br />
lawsuits filed against him, in the name of his Pittsburgh diocese, proves<br />
this.<br />
<br />
The VP of Human Resources lied through his teeth, during the unemploy-<br />
ment compensation hearing where my appeal was denied. This means<br />
that he let money being stolen from me through lying. Yet, there was a<br />
silver lining for a flicker of a moment. I would file an age discrimination<br />
claim with the PA Human Relations Commission. In not being able to<br />
afford an attorney, I would do the research alone and fight the case my-<br />
self.<br />
<br />
On a cold and snow-covered morning I would head down to the State<br />
building in Pittsburgh, across from the Post-Gazette building, to take on<br />
SYSCO, the world’s leading foodservice distributor. There was one of<br />
me and four of them. I felt overwhelmed.<br />
<br />
A very nice professional woman was to handle the case. I went in alone,<br />
first. I told her I was tired of fighting. I was overwhelmed by the four<br />
people outside, waiting to tear into me like vultures over an almost dead<br />
road kill. I asked her to just keep in mind that I would be okay, being<br />
that I had started a small home-based business and with my wife, work-<br />
ing at it full time. We would make it.<br />
<br />
I did want the administrative law judge to know, that SYSCO was the<br />
type of company that took advantage of its employees, and that, if a<br />
single mom or some other victim of SYSCO would come before her,<br />
that she should remember my story. I was ready to leave at that point,<br />
when she insisted that I stay.<br />
<br />
I had done my homework, she stated. My research and the case was<br />
well-documented. I could easily expect some sort of settlement. None<br />
the less, I again reminded her that the four were still overwhelming. She<br />
then asked me to pick one person to come in and represent SYSCO.<br />
I immediately knew who to pick. I said I would like the vice president<br />
of SYSCO’s human resource department to come in. I then told her<br />
that this fellow thinks harass is two words. We laughed and she called<br />
him in.<br />
<br />
I won a small settlement. In fact, I called my wife as soon as I could do<br />
so, because I wanted to let her know that there would be gifts under the<br />
Christmas tree, at least one more time. The circumstantial evidence and<br />
the time line of coincidences show that losing my job at SYSCO was just<br />
another example of what one can suspect to have possibly been the retali-<br />
ation of Donald Wuerl and the Pittsburgh Diocese, if not the act of a co-<br />
wardice of an employer who feared a future retaliation from a Catholic di-<br />
ocese whose institutions were Sysco clients. The circumstantial evidence<br />
indicates one or the other, especially if you believe that there is no such<br />
thing as coincidences. There was no other explanation for my dismissal.<br />
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There was no reason for SYSCO to force me out. Anyone who would like<br />
to review a copy of my files and the research that I prepared for the PA Hu-<br />
man Relations Commission hearing need only to call me at 412-233-5491<br />
or to send an email to me at <a href="mailto:mike@ferencemarketing.com">mike@ferencemarketing.com</a>.<br />
<br />
I would like to remind readers that at the time I left SYSCO I was 40 years<br />
of age, a white college educated male. I belonged to the group most likely<br />
not to win an age discrimination claim. But I did, and I did it with no legal<br />
representation.<br />
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This is the first email an alleged victim of Father Michael LeDoux sent to me on March 12, 2013. His name and email address has been redacted. Read through them.<br />
<br />
Questions<b>:</b> Why didn’t the Pittsburgh diocese let people know that another alleged victim of Father Michael LeDoux has stepped forward? --- that another scandal involving Serra Catholic High School (in McKeesport) is brewing? And, where is notification from our less than trusted district attorney, Stephen Zappala Jr., that others may have been in harm’s way?<br />
<br />
Did Rita Flaherty notify the Zappala selective service group, selectively<br />
serving private interests and not the common good?<br />
<br />
Please read and pass forward. It gets worse.<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: Name redacted Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:32 AM<br />
To: mike@ferencemarketing.com<br />
Subject: Fr. Mike Ledeux<br />
<br />
I've read your articles and maybe we can help each other. I was a student at Serra from 96-2000. I just recently heard about the allegations from the 80's involving Fr. Mike. I was kind of releaved from years and years of personal torment because I know I wasn't the only one he'd done this to and this guy had the balls to come forward and say something. I still don't know what to do, I mean the last thing I want is people, family and friends especially, to know about this. What should I do, or who should I tell? Would it even be worth it? You seem to know how these things are handled. I look forward to your response and this letter remains confidential, thank you.<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
A few email messages later, the alleged victim writes that he has contacted Rita Flaherty of the Pittsburgh Diocese.<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
> From:Name and email address redacted]<br />
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:03 PM<br />
> To: Mike Ference<br />
> Subject: Re: Fr. Mike Ledeux<br />
><br />
> What's up mike. I've been busy and just taking my time before I come<br />
> forward with this. I have been in contact by email with Rita Flaherty<br />
> from the Pittsburgh Diocese. I just wanted to keep in touch.<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
Here’s the response from Rita Flaherty. As you can see, the alleged victim received a reply from Rita Flaherty on March 18, 2013<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:45 PM, "Flaherty, Rita E" <rflaherty@diopitt.org> wrote:<br />
Name redacted,<br />
<br />
I wanted to check back with you following your email of last week regarding abuse by Father Michael LeDoux. I did not hear from you after I responded to your email last week. I want to make sure you did in fact receive my email. If there is anything I can do to assist you with regard to this allegation, please do not hesitate to be in touch with me. You can reach me by email or by phone. My office number is 412-456-3060. You can also call in on the Diocesan Abuse Hotline which I check throughout the day. The number for the hotline is 1-888-808-1235. I want to hear what you have to share, Name redacted so please be in contact.<br />
<br />
Have a good evening!<br />
<br />
Mrs. Rita E. Flaherty, M.S.W., L.S.W.<br />
Diocesan Assistance Coordinator<br />
This is the first email an alleged victim of Father Michael LeDoux sent to me on March 12, 2013. His name and email address has been redacted. Read through them. Why didn’t the Pittsburgh Diocese let people know that another alleged victim of Father Michael LeDoux has stepped forward. That another scandal involving Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport, PA is brewing.<br />
<br />
And, where is notification from the district attorney's office that others may have been in harm’s way?<br />
<br />
Did Rita Flaherty notify said district attorney?<br />
<br />
Please read and pass forward. It gets worse.<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: Name redacted Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:32 AM<br />
To: mike@ferencemarketing.com<br />
Subject: Fr. Mike Ledeux<br />
<br />
I've read your articles and maybe we can help each other. I was a student at Serra from 96-2000. I just recently heard about the allegations from the 80's involving Fr. Mike. I was kind of releaved from years and years of personal torment because I know I wasn't the only one he'd done this to and this guy had the balls to come forward and say something. I still don't know what to do, I mean the last thing I want is people, family and friends especially, to know about this. What should I do, or who should I tell? Would it even be worth it? You seem to know how these things are handled. I look forward to your response and this letter remains confidential, thank you.<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
A few email messages later, the alleged victim writes that he has contacted Rita Flaherty of the Pittsburgh Diocese.<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
> From:Name and email address redacted]<br />
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:03 PM<br />
> To: Mike Ference<br />
> Subject: Re: Fr. Mike Ledeux<br />
><br />
> What's up mike. I've been busy and just taking my time before I come<br />
> forward with this. I have been in contact by email with Rita Flaherty<br />
> from the Pittsburgh Diocese. I just wanted to keep in touch.<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
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Here’s the response from Rita Flaherty. As you can see, the alleged victim received a reply from Rita Flaherty on March 18, 2013<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:45 PM, "Flaherty, Rita E" <rflaherty@diopitt.org> wrote:<br />
Name redacted,<br />
<br />
I wanted to check back with you following your email of last week regarding abuse by Father Michael LeDoux. I did not hear from you after I responded to your email last week. I want to make sure you did in fact receive my email. If there is anything I can do to assist you with regard to this allegation, please do not hesitate to be in touch with me. You can reach me by email or by phone. My office number is 412-456-3060. You can also call in on the Diocesan Abuse Hotline which I check throughout the day. The number for the hotline is 1-888-808-1235. I want to hear what you have to share, Name redacted so please be in contact.<br />
<br />
Have a good evening!<br />
<br />
Mrs. Rita E. Flaherty, M.S.W., L.S.W.<br />
Diocesan Assistance CoordinatorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-75556338442059351732014-03-05T09:00:00.000-05:002014-03-22T19:17:56.637-04:00Part 2: The truth will come out, sooner or later<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the next few emails the alleged victim of Father Michael LeDoux is concerned about two private investigators snooping around and asking questions. His mother passes on the telephone number, so her son can make contact. If this is true, who hired the two private investigators? Could it have been Father Michael LeDoux, Rita Flaherty, Serra Catholic High School or Father Ron?<br />
<br />
I spoke to another alleged victim of LeDoux who described the private investigator scenario as something LeDoux was not only capable of doing, but he added that it was LeDoux’s method of operation. I have no way of verifying this information and sadly, the Pittsburgh Diocese can’t be trusted to do the right thing. So, who knows?<br />
<br />
From: Name and email redacted<br />
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:35 AM<br />
To: Mike Ference<br />
Subject: Re: latest<br />
<br />
I had two private investigators going around looking for me yesterday. When they went to my mom's she took one of their numbers and I called him. He wants to meet with me today. I didn't promise anything. Also, he wouldn't say who he's working for. , I told him, if I talk to him, I need to know that at least.<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
Here’s another email from LeDoux’s alleged victim from Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport, PA, as he describes more attempts by the two private investigators to make contact.<br />
<br />
From: Name and email redacted<br />
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:43 AM<br />
To: Mike Ference<br />
Subject: Re: latest<br />
<br />
The last time we talked, I said what I had to say, which wasn't much. He wanted to meet me and I said there's nothing more i have to say. He called a few more times Monday and I havnt heard since. Has anyone been asking around for you?<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Mike Ference <mike@ferencemarketing.com> wrote:<br />
Name redacted,<br />
<br />
Can you let me know what’s going on? I’m also concerned they may have been snooping around for information on me as well.<br />
MikeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-11652423330954178012014-03-04T23:26:00.000-05:002014-03-22T19:18:14.087-04:00The common name found in the Wellinger obituary & DA seating arrangement report.<div style="text-align: left;">
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In case you're missing the point,<br />
the attempted murder of Adam<br />
Ference occurred in Pennsylvania,<br />
the Sandusky State, the Bevilacqua<br />
State, the Luzerne County Cash for<br />
Kids State, and the Donald Wuerl<br />
triple cover-up State where Wuerl<br />
faced zero charges for having violat-<br />
ed the Child Protective Services Act.<br />
<br />
Wuerl faced zero disciplinary action,<br />
despite being accused of foot drag-<br />
ging during a criminal investigation.<br />
The Ference investigation was trun-<br />
cated, to the convenience of Wuerl.<br />
<br />
<br />
Plus, Pennsylvania is the State where Cardinal Donald Wuerl ratified the<br />
Torquato Retaliations and made the life of Father Donald Sotak's credible<br />
accuser a living Hell, when the fact is that Sotak's credible accuser should<br />
have been ordained a priest long ago. Yet, Wuerl chose Torquato, while<br />
pushing out Sotak's accuser.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, Adam's father, Mike, lost his management job shortly after<br />
the shooting, and major customers were the Catholic schools and colleges<br />
nearby. Mike was told that, all of a sudden, clients were complaining about<br />
him. But, this never happened before. Thus, Mike got letters of recommen-<br />
dation from some of his clients which stated how pleased they were with<br />
Mike. In as much, who were the clients suddenly complaining about Mike<br />
after he made it known that he intended to investigate the cause of his son's<br />
attempted murder. It also occurred around the time when Mike sued the<br />
Diocese of Pittsburgh, for negligence. Then Mike was gone. Wuerl's<br />
handling of Adam Ference's attempted murder caused Mike untold men-<br />
tal trauma. Thus, Wuerl is no "holy holy man," in that he was incapable<br />
of being back to Mike's life that peace that was robbed of it on Pittsburgh<br />
diocesan property.<br />
<br />
The investigation into Adam Ference's murder suddenly ceased, with no<br />
conclusions as to the shooters' motives and influences. In addition, keep<br />
in mind that, after he returned to school, Adam was allegedly threatened.<br />
A hostile individual allegedly mentioned that wanted to kick Adam in his<br />
head wound, among other things. Adam was then taken out of the Cath-<br />
olic school under Wuerl's jurisdiction and home-schooled. This means<br />
that Donald Wuerl did nothing for the Ference family, except let it be<br />
terrorized by one of Wuerl's attorney's during a deposition. There was<br />
also the matter of a few neighborhood kids allegedly terrorizing the<br />
Ference family. Thus, Wuerl was an extremely weak leader.<br />
<br />
Below is the jpeg of a district attorney document. It is the seating ar-<br />
rangement of the bus where the young Adam Ference was shot and<br />
where Bobby Butler committed suicide. Also below is a link to the<br />
obituary of the John Wellinger who was accused of being a molester<br />
priest in a lawsuit which was settled out of court. The lady named in<br />
the obituary as John Wellinger's "devoted home companion" was ever<br />
so coincidentally the aunt of one of the students on the bus.<br />
<br />
At the very least, it's quite a coincidence. However, the suspicion was<br />
that the young Bobby Butler was influenced by occultism, in his shoot-<br />
ing of Adam and himself. Now, it was proposed or suggested or con-<br />
jectured or suspected or alleged that Pittsburgh diocesan priest John<br />
Wellinger had an affinity to occultism in one way or another. One of<br />
the questions left unanswered was if this John Wellinger was an influ-<br />
ence on anyone who influenced Bobby Butler, if not Bobby himself.<br />
<br />
Ironically, this John Wellinger officiated at Bobby's funeral. None the<br />
less, it is imperative for you to keep in mind that it was the local law<br />
enforcement officials who set forth the possibility or probability that<br />
Bobby Butler was engaged in a devotion to the occult, meaning that<br />
his occult influence might possibly have provoked his deadly actions.<br />
<br />
Ironically, the person who went on to the bus and took the gun out of<br />
Bobby Butler's hands was the Boston-area brother/teacher who was<br />
twice accused of molestation, but who claims that he is innocent of the<br />
accusations.<br />
<br />
To add to the theatrics of the day, the same Brother Ghastin was later<br />
rushed to the hospital, suspected of having had either a heart attack or<br />
angina, or some type of sudden illness related to chest pains.<br />
<br />
Let it be known that, during the time following Adam's surgery and re-<br />
covery, there was a media blackout. Therefore, this case didn't get<br />
very much public exposure. Mike Ference, at the time, was too trust-<br />
ing of the police and the church hierarchs. In hindsight, Mike wishes<br />
that he didn't agree to the media blackout. It only helped Wuerl and<br />
the others in power.<br />
<br />
There has to be some reason why this case gnaws at Mike Ference,<br />
to the point of having robbed him of his peace. Well, Donald Wuerl<br />
robbed a number of peace of their peace. None the less, Mike has<br />
a right to closure and the truth.<br />
<br />
First comes the 2011 obituary of John Wellinger. Additionally keep in<br />
mind that the nun who allegedly allegedly allegedly warned the Diocese<br />
of Pittsburgh about John Wellinger (to allegedly no avail) was contacted<br />
in early May of 2012 and allegedly stated that she did not want to com-<br />
ment on the topic.<br />
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<i><b>WELLINGER JOHN W.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Age 66, of Clairton, peacefully and unexpectedly on Thursday, </b></i><br />
<i><b>April 21, 2011. Son of the late John G. and Nellie I.; beloved </b></i><br />
<i><b>brother of Sarah Wellinger and Marinell (Richard deceased) </b></i><br />
<i><b>Nagle; uncle of Richard J. Nagle; loving, devoted home com-</b></i><br />
<i><b>panion of Maria Campano. Friends may call at FRANK F. </b></i><br />
<i><b>DeBOR FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1065 Brookline Blvd., </b></i><br />
<i><b>412-561-0380, MONDAY ONLY 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Mass of </b></i><br />
<i><b>Christian Burial Tuesday at 12 noon in the Church of the </b></i><br />
<i><b>Resurrection, 1100 Creedmoore Ave., Pittsburgh, 15226. </b></i><br />
<i><b>Memorial contributions may be made to the Little Sisters</b></i><br />
<i><b> of the Poor, 1028 Benton Ave., Pittsburgh 15212.</b></i><br />
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See: <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=john-w-wellinger&pid=150494921&fhid=8065" target="_blank">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=john-w-wellinger&pid=150494921&fhid=8065</a><br />
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Incidentally, the phrase, "AC DA Investigations," stands for Allegheny County<br />
District Attorney Investigations.<br />
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Introduction<br />
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This information was provided by me to two Allegheny County detectives in February of 2006, namely Detectives Dennis Logan and Keith Andrews. The information was sent via email and also hand delivered to an office in Dormont, PA.<br />
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I also spoke with both detectives. Logan looked at me after I thought he had reviewed it and asked "<b><i>What do you want me to do with this?</i></b>" I also spoke to Detective Andrews. I told him that I meant business this time around and would not take any prisoners. Writers use metaphors at times, but Andrews didn't take this into account, all but arresting me on the spot. He bullied me and asked whom I was threatening.<br />
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Some of the information below needs to be revised. Following the alleged drugging of a certain youth, by Father John Wellinger, the youth was transported to then Presbyterian University Hospital (now known as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.) Also, the youth told me (when I interviewed him) that the alleged assault occurred when he was 18 years-old.<br />
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One more thing: Assistant DA Laura Ditka strongly advised then-Mayor Jim Brewster to give me the police report of the attempted murder of my son. Ditka told me and Brewster that it was a public record, and as the father of the victim, I was more than entitled to it. To this day, I have never received the report. I did receive a coroner’s report that Ditka must have been able to have located in the DA’s office, but that’s it. How do I know this? ANS: The coroner’s report that was faxed to me has the DA’s fax number on it. So, as far as I’m concerned, Senator Brewster is still covering-up crimes and is still obstructing justice. This is something that, according to my opinion, he is very good at. The following is a summary of my investigation into John Wellinger, a priest who allegedly sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy at Holy Spirit Church in West Mifflin, PA.<br />
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Much of this information was supplied to Corporal Griffin in 1991, when I met with him. Griffin told me that he would have the West Mifflin Police at least question John Wellinger. All I know is that Wellinger was gone from Holy Spirit Church within about 2 weeks.<br />
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I spoke to Brian Washowich, a detective for the McKeesport Police, in 2005. He advised me to contact DA Zappalla and request a grand jury investigation. Those were Washowich’s words. It didn’t matter. No one ever returned my calls.<br />
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It should be noted that Brian Washowich also spoke with Brletic before he recommended that I call the DA’s office. These guys will eventually trip over themselves and the truth will come out. It will be interesting to hear how they piece together a story, to cover all their acts of ineptness.<br />
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Much of this information was given to Ken Evans, an investigative reporter from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just a few months after my son was shot on December 5, 1989. Likewise, when Ken Evans failed as an investigative reporter, I passed on most of these details to Mary Pat Flaherty, a Pulitzer-winning writer with the now defunct Pittsburgh Press. Mary Pat Flaherty now works for the Washington Post.<br />
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The law firm of Behrend and Enesberger also had most of the details and information at their disposal, but failed miserably. Brian Knolls who handled my case won’t even attempt to answer the simplest question when I talked to him in 2005, preferring instead to have the firm handle my simple questions. Brian Knolls, like Ken Evans, left Pittsburgh soon after my case was settled with the diocese. Could there have been some sort of payoff to both of them?<br />
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I finally found a law enforcement/government official who took my investigation seriously. Sadly enough, this person has no jurisdiction in Western PA. But, he has been able to alert the right people who may be able to make a difference. I can not repeat this statement often enough. I was not able to find one law enforcement official at any level in Western PA. No government official except for one outside my legislative district was willing to help.<br />
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Not once did DA Zappala’s office respond to my calls for help. It wasn’t until a letter was sent to the DA’s office by Senator Jane Orie that an assistant DA, Laura Ditka, called me. I realize that Ms. Ditka may have an outstanding reputation in the DA’s office, but quite frankly, her recommendation that I call the Police Chief of McKeesport, in order to obtain the police report of my son’s shooting, was nothing more than a waste of my time.<br />
<br />
Mayor Brewster called me back a week later and refused to give me the report. Ms. Ditka claimed that it was a public record. Well, I called her back and sent an email, so that she could advise me what to do next. No return calls.<br />
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During our conversation, Ms. Ditka whined about the tough questions I was asking her, concerning my investigation. I don’t think you will ever find someone from Zappala’s office really giving a damn about this case.<br />
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I looked into having the McKeesport Police Department investigated. This, in my eyes, would have been fruitless. The DA’s office would have served as the investigator.<br />
<br />
I also looked into to having the DA’s office investigated by the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. However, Zappala’s father is a retired judge, I believe, and wouldn't be investigated, probably.<br />
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The democrats have it all tied up in Allegheny County . That’s why we’re in the mess we are ( forgive the editorializing).<br />
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<b>Timeline for allegations into John Wellinger</b><br />
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A 16-year-old boy was fed drugs and alcohol by John Wellinger sometime in 1987, two years before the alleged sexual assault of Chris Mathews, who at the time, was an 11-year-old altar boy at Holy Spirit Church in West Mifflin , PA. Because of the age of the boy at the time of the offense, I can not give his name, or the name of his parents. Note: He turned out to be 18 and the hospital to where he went was Presby. Today, it's known as UPMC ... Univ. of Pgh Med Ctr.<br />
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The boy’s mother worked for the church under John Wellinger. This would have been in 1987 or so. I never pressed my sources for exact dates such as the month of the alleged transgression or first names. In the case of this boy, he does have an older brother who may have been attending the University of Pittsburgh at the time. The attack may have also taken place in an University of Pittsburgh dormitory.<br />
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The young boy somehow managed to make his way to Shadyside Hospital in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh . It’s also reasonably close to the Pitt Campus. The parents were summoned by hospital employees. Again, according to my sources, the parents were advised (possibly by a hospital social worker or another hospital employee) to not press charges. The hospital employee explained that it required too much money to take on the church.<br />
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Here are some other details you should know. Again this is information that I received from my sources who I will identify shortly:<br />
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The mother of the boy who was attacked by John Wellinger was infatuated with Wellinger, possibly to the point of having an affair. This could be said about a number of women who, for whatever reason, were very close to Wellinger.<br />
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It may also be one of the reasons why the father of the boy allegedly attacked by Wellinger was never willing to step forward and press charges against Wellinger. There are other reasons as well.<br />
<br />
I’ve previously stated that Wellinger was a text-book pedophile. One of the ways he compromised his victims was to compromise their family, as well. Wellinger not only scoped-out his victims, he scoped-out the family for additional victims.<br />
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I spoke with the mother in 1990, as part of my investigation into John Wellinger. I spoke with her over the phone and explained to her why I was interested in talking to her about Wellinger. At this time, her son was in the service ... the Navy I believe.<br />
<br />
She said that she had to discuss the matter with her husband. I told her that I would call back in about two weeks. When I called back, the mother said that her family did not want to bring up what happened. They wanted to leave it behind them, being that it was very difficult to talk about.<br />
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According to my sources, another reason the family never pressed charges was because they were afraid that any mention of their son doing drugs could have prevented their son from entering the armed forces. This, combined with the mother’s infatuation with Wellinger, was enough to keep Wellinger from being exposed.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Sources that could verify parts or all of this story include:</b><br />
<br />
Sister Gretchen Wiegl, a Sister of Mercy who works at Mercy Hospital. I was told that she was well-aware of John Wellinger’s demons. She never returned my calls. There was no need for her to do so. I don’t have a badge. Nor do I represent any so-called legitimate media.<br />
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Michelle Niedziela was the church organist, I believe, when Wellinger was the pastor at Holy Spirit. She can confirm most of the details above. I spoke with her over the phone. She became a member of St. Clare Church in Clairton , PA. She also knows Maria Campano very well.<br />
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Marina Cocarro has been involved with church affairs for many years and would know everything there is to know about Wellinger. She refused to answer any questions. She was still a member of Holy Spirit Church and active in the church affairs.<br />
<br />
Richard Dorsch is a former Catholic priest who, I’m told by one source, was John Wellinger’s lover and male companion. The two may have met in the seminary. Dorsch was convicted in 1994 of sexually abusing a boy from a North Side Parish.<br />
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Marinell is one of John Wellinger’s sisters. I do not have a last name. She is a former nun, married, and for a time she may have served as a secretary at Holy Spirit Church . She was also aware of her brother’s demons. Wellinger also had another sister. She, too, was a nun. She retired.<br />
<br />
Jo Ann Leshen may be familiar with Wellinger’s drug habits. I talked to this woman in 1990. She was reluctant to say much. But, she advised me that Wellinger was very shrewd and had eyes and ears everywhere.<br />
<br />
Virginia Voytek spent a lot of time with Wellinger. She was another woman who was infatuated with him. I could not locate her, to talk to her.<br />
<br />
Pat Ruffing would be another woman who should be able to verify much of the story. She also worked for Holy Spirit in some capacity.<br />
<br />
Maria Campano was living with John Wellinger in a house on Waddell Avenue in Clairton, PA; about a block or two from the Clairton Education Center. Maria Campano had been a constant companion of John Wellinger, since Wellinger left St. Clare of Assisi Parish in Clairton, sometime around 1986 or 1987. The only time she was not with Wellinger would have been the time he spent at St. Luke’s Treatment Center in Maryland. This is a guess. I’m guessing it would have been around 1993 to 1995. Again, that’s only a guess.<br />
<br />
Bill Scully was the public safety officer for Clairton at the time of my son’s shooting. He was privy to much of the investigation, and because he knew the town and the people, he was instrumental in providing information to Police Chief Brletic and other McKeesport officers, as well as Corporal Robert Griffin of the PA State Police and to the media members who were covering the story.<br />
<br />
Bill Scully had many years as a seasoned law enforcement officer, including stints as a detective and possibly a year or two as the assistant police chief. He’s also a thoroughbred democrat. He knows the good, bad and evil side of politics. He advised me only weeks after the shooting that, if I followed John Wellinger, I might be able to have solved this case.<br />
<br />
He advised me that Wellinger may have abused Bob Butler, Jr., the boy who shot my son. As a police officer, Bill Scully was privy to a lot of information from individuals who stepped forward and wanted to see justice prevail. My guess is that he also talked to people who advised him to keep the case quiet. His sister-in-law also knew some information about Wellinger.<br />
<br />
Frank DeFazio was the chief of police of West Mifflin when Wellinger was a preist at Holy Spirit in West Mifflin. I talked with Frank several times. He had a neighbor who made the claim that Wellinger’s sexual activity with young boys was common knowledge. This person would never talk to me.<br />
<br />
Then there was Marta Placek. I have a taped interview with her that includes details of her going to the diocese in 1988 with details of John Wellinger’s innaproriate behavior, including a young boy living at the rectory. She thinks that she talked to Ron Lengwin. She was rebuffed and made to sound like a woman spreading ugly gossip.<br />
<br />
Over the years I did have a chance to speak with the father of the boy allegedly drugged by Wellinger. He never volunteered much information, but he always suggested that I talk to members of church council, to find out the truth. I was able to find an anniversary book for Holy Spirit Church. It provided me with plenty of people to call.<br />
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The only time the father of the boy said he would be willing to step forward is if there was an open forum and information about Wellinger and Holy Spirit Church was being discussed freely. This was after he saw my first article/editorial in the <i><u>51 Corridor</u></i>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-82974336088332521762014-03-02T22:16:00.000-05:002014-03-22T19:18:52.774-04:00Another Glaring Example of Synchronized Crime by Pittsburgh's Public Serpents.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was revealed in 2011 by WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh that the FBI had kept extensive files on Sheriff Coon beginning in the early to mid-1970s and suspected him of "protecting" and "enforcing" for the Pittsburgh Mob, most notably Tony Grosso's organization. [2] No charges nor public investigation were ever pursued, however the files connect Coon with the same organization that Federal investigators suspected in the death of District Attorney for Pittsburgh Robert Duggan in early 1974. Then U.S. District Attorney, and later Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. District Attorney, Richard Thornburgh chose to close the cases and the investigation by 1975.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wtae.com/Team-4-Late-Pittsburgh-Politicians-FBI-Files-Revealed/-/9681798/7711370/-/hxa0ym/-/index.html?fb_action_ids=511608085619150&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://www.wtae.com/Team-4-Late-Pittsburgh-Politicians-FBI-Files-Revealed/-/9681798/7711370/-/hxa0ym/-/index.html?fb_action_ids=511608085619150&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582</span></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305727235279163236.post-76011981975264868472014-03-01T15:37:00.000-05:002014-03-22T19:19:08.137-04:00The Sly Tone of His VoiceThe sly tone of his voice, combined with his unexpected and uninvited persistence in discussing Adam attending St. Vincent College, made me suddenly aware that Nowicki never intended to discuss the copycat crime or anything else regarding the problems at Serra Catholic. You see, I heard that a student was planning to copy cat the shooting of my son. So, I went up to ladder in church authority and called Nowicki, to talk about those issues, and never mentioned Adam's future. I wanted to prevent another shooting.<br />
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Well, Nowicki came to my office. But, he never spoke about anything surrounding the planned copycat shooting or anything surrounding my son's attempted murder. So, my perception was that he was essentially offering me a bribe — to send my son to St. Vincent College, if I would stop raising a fuss about issues raised by his shooting.<br />
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Below is a letter that I did send to the Vatican. It was ignored.<br />
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Letter to Tobin: In re: Nowicki’s Perceived Bribe<br />
September 29, 2011<br />
His Excellency, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin C.Ss.R<br />
Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Societatibus Vitae Apostolicae<br />
Palazzo della Congregazioni, 00193 Roma, Piazza Pio XII, 3<br />
Vatican City State<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Introduction</b><br />
<br />
My name is Mike Ference, and I am writing to make you aware of what I perceived as a bribe from Douglas Nowicki who is currently Archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey and Chancellor of Saint Vincent College & Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The perceived bribe took place in February of 1990, during a meeting in a sales office of the Deaktor/SYSCO Foodservice Company, where I worked at the time.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Background</b><br />
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On December 5, 1989, my son Adam, then 16 years old, had been the victim of an attempted murder while on his way to Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. As his school bus entered school property, the shooter, a sophomore at Serra Catholic, fired a .2 caliber gun at point blank range into the back of my son’s head. He then shot and killed himself. My son, mercifully, survived.<br />
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An attempted murder/suicide would normally be handled by Allegheny County detectives. Instead, the McKeesport Police Department, despite lacking the resources to investigate such a case on their own, took the lead. I believe this decision was motivated by the desire of multiple stakeholders to cover up certain details of the case.<br />
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For example, the shooter had a strong interest in Satanism and the occult. This was confirmed by State Trooper Bob Griffin (since retired), an expert in this area who was brought in during the investigation. Another investigator, Clairton Public Safety Director Bill Scully, told me that the shooter may have been sexually abused by local Catholic priest John Wellinger — who later left the ministry and was named in a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.<br />
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Barely a month after my son was shot, Scully came to my home and bluntly told my wife and me that the case was being deliberately quashed. He provided me with case notes (which I still have and can give you upon request) which strongly suggested that, if I wanted to get to the bottom of the attempted murder of my son, I would have to do it on my own.<br />
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<b>Meeting with Douglas Nowicki</b><br />
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In February of 1990, I was contacted by Kathy Ulmer, a long-time friend whose son also attended Serra Catholic High School. She told me that was another student at Serra Catholic who had planned a copycat shooting, similar to what had happened to my son. I immediately called Scully (who also had children at Serra Catholic), to see if he were aware of the problem. He was — and advised me to contact Serra Catholic directly to express my concerns.<br />
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I contacted a “Brother Chuck” — who I believe was Dean of Students and/or a guidance counselor at Serra Catholic at the time. After I shared what I had heard about a potential copycat crime, Brother Chuck explained that it was a student suffering from depression, that he had been taken out of Serra, and that I shouldn’t be concerned about the matter.<br />
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I asked if the police had been notified and Brother Chuck answered no. Given the double tragedy that had occurred just two months earlier, I found his cavalier attitude inappropriate to say the least. So, I decided to contact a higher authority.<br />
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I called Douglas Nowicki, the secretary of parochial schools at the time. Once again, I expressed my concerns about a potential copycat crime, and also noted Brother Chuck’s apparent dismissal of the seriousness of this issue. Nowicki offered to meet with me to discuss my concerns.<br />
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We met the next day at 10:00 a.m., in a sales room at Deaktor/SYSCO Foodservice Company in Harmony, Pennsylvania, where I was employed as a national accounts sales representative. Oddly, Nowicki started our conversation by advising me that he would be assuming a new position as the Archabbott at St. Vincent College. Next, he mentioned my uncle, Joseph Ference, who became Brother Martin Ference, and was a monk at St. Vincent until his death in the late 1970s.<br />
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Without ever broaching the subject of the copycat crime which inspired my calling him in the first place, Nowicki then asked about my son and suggested that he consider attending St. Vincent College after high school. A little taken aback, I explained that we were still dealing with the trauma of the shooting and weren’t really thinking about college just yet. I also said that I wasn’t sure Adam would meet St. Vincent’s high academic standards.<br />
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Instead of letting it go and turning to the issue of the copycat crime and the safety of Serra Catholic students, Nowicki seemed intent on convincing me that Adam could, and should, go to St. Vincent College. He told me that tutors could be available to help Adam get through his courses. I replied that instead of being dependent on tutors, it might be better for my son to spend his first year or two at Allegheny County Community College, where it would be easier to take any remedial classes and get his feet under him.<br />
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This back-and-forth continued for several minutes, with Nowicki reeling off reasons why Adam should attend St. Vincent College, while providing quick “solutions” to every obstacle I brought up. Finally, I admitted that I simply could not afford to send my son to St. Vincent College and that I was against him taking on excessive student loans. As if he had been waiting for that moment, Nowicki immediately said, “there are ways around that.”<br />
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The sly tone of voice combined with his unexpected and uninvited persistence in discussing Adam’s attending St. Vincent College made me suddenly aware that Nowicki never intended to discuss the copycat crime or anything else regarding the problems at Serra Catholic. My perception was that he was essentially offering me a bribe — to send my son to St. Vincent College if I would stop raising a fuss about issues raised by his shooting.<br />
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In retrospect, it also seems likely that Nowicki was testing the waters to see if we were considering a lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Diocese — and to determine what it might take to keep the case out of the courts.<br />
Outraged by the perceived bribe, I told Nowicki to get out. He stood and backed out the door, his eyes locked on mine as if to stare me down.<br />
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<b>Summary</b><br />
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Nowicki’s actions may or may not meet the criteria to prove attempted bribery in U.S. courts — I did not pursue that option. However, they were certainly inappropriate and suspicious at best. Again, he completely ignored the stated purpose of our meeting — i.e., to discuss issues surrounding the shooting of my son and the possibility of a copycat crime. He quickly steered the conversation to what could be done to get my son into St. Vincent College. That may have been fine, if it had been a straightforward expression of wanting to help a student traumatized by an attempted murder. But Nowicki chose his words carefully, intently gauging my response to subtly implied offers that went beyond good ethics. There shouldn’t be “ways around” a college’s academic requirements or costs for any student, should there?<br />
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After my initial anger subsided, I was struck by how carefully designed and controlled the whole meeting had been. I had the strong impression that Nowicki had conducted similar conversations many times before. That, along with other factors, inspired me to begin a deeper investigation into clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups that continues to this day.<br />
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In the case of the attempted murder of my son and suicide of his shooter, I firmly believe that Nowicki’s “offer” to me was part of a broader (and, unfortunately, successful) effort to suppress further investigation of this terrible tragedy. Your Excellency, at your request, I would be willing to share more detailed information about Nowicki. My understanding is that you are genuinely dedicated to investigating and resolving the corruption within Religious Congregations that has done so much damage to the Roman Catholic Church.<br />
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I will conclude by emphasizing that my desire to find and tell the truth in cases like my son’s is tied directly to having grown up with the core teachings of the Catholic Church. Sadly, 22 years of deceit and bullying from the hierarchy of the Pittsburgh Diocese has eroded my desire to participate in traditional Catholic services — but the core teachings of Christianity remain central to everything I do.<br />
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I will also add that I have no ax to grind with St. Vincent College & Seminary. I have many fond memories of St. Vincent, dating back to early childhood. As mentioned, my Uncle Joe, also known as Brother Martin, spent 30-some years at St. Vincent, much of it in the boiler house. He had a small room where we would sit and talk, and I have wonderful memories of wandering the grounds. I also remember the terrible fire in the 50s that damaged much of the college. It was in the dead of winter, water lines were frozen, and the fire departments had a hard time dousing the blaze. This happened while I was a student at St. Joseph’s in Clairton, and I remember the nun mentioning my uncle to our class and saying fervent prayers for the safety of those involved. I also recall meeting Father Jack O’Malley when he was just a seminarian playing basketball at St. Vincent’s gym. He went on to become quite an advocate for the poor and less fortunate.<br />
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I could go on and on with positive memories of St. Vincent — so again, I have no ax to grind there. However, I believe further investigation of Douglas Nowicki is urgently needed and will likely justify corrective and/or punitive action. I am willing to swear under oath the contents of this letter before the Chancellor of the Diocese of which I am canonically domiciled<b>;</b> and or under oath under the pains and penalties of perjury before a civil notary.<br />
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In light of the aforementioned, I formally denounce Arch abbot Douglas Nowicki to this discastery, with the expressed petition that I have outlined above be investigated and dealt with according to the dictates of Canon Law, and I request a written acknowledgement of receipt of this within 15 days.<br />
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Very truly yours,<br />
Michael J. Ference<br />
Clairton, PA 15025Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847218042711365077noreply@blogger.com