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Monterey County Weekly
Mary Duan and Sara Rubin
Judge Thomas Wills
Monterey County Superior Court
“I’m not beholden to anyone. Some have suggested that at times I’m sort of tied into an old boys network on the bench. That’s not true. I’m not. I call it like I see it.”
– Wills, speaking to the Weekly editorial board in 2008, in his campaign for the bench.
Paul Gaspari
Defense Attorney for the Diocese of Monterey, San Francisco and Santa Rosa; law firm of Weintraub Tobin, San Francisco
Paul Gaspari
“Our position is, this case is over and I don’t need to do anything.”
– Gaspari, arguing against the Weekly’s request for sealed documents and other material obtained during discovery in the case against Edward Fitz-Henry and the Diocese of Monterey, Sept. 10, 2013
Vince Finaldi
Plaintiff’s attorney for John R.J. Doe; law firm of Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, Irvine
“Those files show that they knew exactly who (Father Michael) Baker was and what he was doing.”
– Finaldi, in response to the 12,000 pages of documents that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released earlier this year about how it handled allegations of sexual abuse by priests, including the accused priest Michael Baker. A settlement of nearly $10 million for four sex-abuse cases was agreed to by the L.A. Diocese.
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