NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Daniel Beekman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Cardinal Timothy Dolan was reportedly slated to be deposed Wednesday afternoon by lawyers for hundreds of people who claim they were abused by priests in Milwaukee, where Dolan was previously archbishop.
Dolan was set to face lawyers for 575 people who allege they were abused over several decades by clergy in the Milwaukee archdiocese, which Dolan led until 2009 when he became the pope’s man in New York.
“The deposition of Cardinal Dolan is necessary to show that there’s been a long-standing pattern and practice to keep secrets and keep the survivors from knowing that there had been a fraud committed,” Jeff Anderson, lawyer for 350 of the Milwaukee plaintiffs, told the New York Times, which first posted the story Wednesday.
It is unclear how the deposition will affect Dolan, who has been discussed as a candidate for the papacy in the wake of Pope Benedict’s resignation.
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