What are they trying to hide?
An investigation ordered by a high-ranking cardinal into clergy abuse at one of the country’s top Catholic universities seemed poised to clear a major hurdle when lawyers sat down last week with a key figure holding potentially damning information.
But for the second time in six months, nothing happened when former Seton Hall University president Joseph Nyre was ready to dish — and his attorney says it’s because the school is trying to “silence the truth.” Nyre showed up, the attorney said, but school officials effectively blocked him from answering any questions.
It’s the latest point of conflict in an investigation spurred by POLITICO’s reporting on Seton Hall’s current president, Monsignor Joseph Reilly, who was named to the position despite previously facing allegations he mishandled sexual abuse claims on campus. Just this month, a state judge ordered Seton Hall to turn over roughly 20,000 pages of documents on those and other allegations and chastised the New Jersey school for not doing so years earlier.
The aborted interview is more than just discord between Nyre and his former employer. Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who sits on Seton Hall’s governing boards, promised the school’s “full cooperation” and a “transparent review of the facts” when he hired the law firm that sought to interview Nyre.
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