PITTSBURGH (PA)
Tribune Review
Nov. 23, 2019
By Megan Guza
Don’t ask Josh Shapiro what’s next. There’s work to do right now.
Shapiro, three years into his first term as Pennsylvania attorney general, has risen in profile since taking office. That’s due in no small part to the explosive 2018 grand jury report accusing a half-dozen Catholic dioceses across the state, including the ones in Pittsburgh and Greensburg, of covering up decades of child sexual abuse by priests.
In that regard, there is more to do. The abuse hotline set up in the aftermath of the report has gotten nearly 2,000 reports in just over a year. Those must be investigated.
He’s also in the process of hammering out a $50 billion settlement with Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the maker of OxyContin, following a two-year investigation by Shapiro and attorneys general from three other states.
In the meantime, thousands continue to die of drug overdoses across Pennsylvania. There is more to do, he said.
Seniors are still being scammed. Students have lost money to predatory for-profit colleges. There are still fraudsters and predators and drug dealers.
So don’t ask the attorney general what’s next – it visibly annoys him.
“Look. If you can’t tell, we’re pretty busy, and I really love this work,” Shapiro told the Tribune-Review.
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