AP: States Consider Charging Catholic Church as Crime Ring
In
what would be an unprecedented legal move, Michigan’s Attorney General
Dana Nessel is considering applying federal racketeering laws to
prosecute officials within the Catholic Church for their roles in
covering up clerical sex abuse, according to an Associated Press investigation published Tuesday morning. Such
an action would mark the first known example of a law enforcement
agency prosecuting the Church using federal laws aimed at taking on
organized criminal activity.
