BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW
December 4, 2020
By Charlie Specht
Connors, LiPuma criticized in AG report
Terrence M. Connors has had so much influence at the Diocese of Buffalo chancery for the past 25 years that some employees privately called him “Bishop Terry.”
But the smooth-talking criminal defense attorney was the subject of criticism in a blistering report by State Attorney General Letitia James that accused the diocese of a “systemic” cover-up of sex abuse allegations. Diocese lawyers were cited 46 times in the highly critical lawsuit filed by New York’s top prosecutor.
And Connors isn’t the only adviser of disgraced Bishop Richard J. Malone who has managed — despite Malone’s resignation a year ago today — to retain his influence inside the Catholic Center as newly appointed Bishop Michael Fisher takes the helm.
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