NEW YORK
Buffalo News
By Phil Fairbanks
April 21, 2018
In the Oscar-winning movie “Spotlight,” Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian talks openly about the priest who abused his clients and the power of the Catholic Church to keep the scandal a secret.
“I’m not crazy. I’m not paranoid. I’m experienced,” Garabedian, played by actor Stanley Tucci, says of the church. “You’ll see. They control everything. Everything.”
That scene was from 17 years ago, but Garabedian’s anger with the Catholic Church is still front and center, an important part of his message as he brings his high profile to Buffalo in search of sexual abuse clients here.
Garabedian is one part, a big part, of the out-of-town legal presence that arrived here when the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo announced a compensation fund for victims of clergy sexual abuse.
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