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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia on Tuesday placed 21 priests on administrative leave following a damning grand jury report last month -- the second investigation of sex abuse by priests in recent years -- that said up to 37 clerics suspected of abuse remained in ministry. Rigali suspended the priests on the eve of Ash Wednesday and the penitential season of Lent. In a statement, Rigali expressed his "sorrow" for the abuse of children by clergy. "I am truly sorry for the harm done to the victims of sexual abuse, as well as to the members of our community who suffer as a result of this ...
In a scholarly book soon to be published on the 1990s presidential impeachment saga, Monica Lewinsky is quoted as saying that former President William Jefferson Clinton committed perjury before the Whitewater grand jury while testifying about their physical relationship. Clinton's convoluted testimony has, for a decade, been the frequent source of lampooning. His "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" has entered the lexicon as an example of male obfuscation. His parsing of a judge's language in his sexual harassment case led the then-president to assert with a straight face that when ...
David Letterman admitted on "Late Night with David Letterman" on Thursday that he "had sex with women who work on this show." He also told his stunned audience that he had testified before a grand jury that afternoon about being blackmailed by a CBS employee who threatened to go public with the affairs unless Letterman gave him $2 million. Letterman did not say how many employees he'd had relationships with nor give a time frame of the affairs. In March, Letterman married Regina Lasko, his girlfriend of 23 years and the mother of his 5-year-old son. CBS producer Robert "Joe" Halderman was ...
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