Mgoweqp's List: RICCI

Police are investigating a former Palm Beach County priest accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl while she attended a local Catholic church more than 15 years ago.
The target of the investigation, the Rev. Frank Flynn, is the first priest in the 18-year history of the Palm Beach Diocese to be accused of molesting a minor, church officials said.
Father Flynn was dispatched to Ireland in 1997 after several women accused him of sexual misconduct.
Until now, the handling of Flynn's case has been defended by the diocese's interim leader, the Rev. James Murtagh, who had said that any sexual activity had been consensual or unproven but never criminal or involving minors.
Murtagh alerted State Attorney Barry Krischer on April 10, five days after the woman's mother told the diocese she had just learned of the allegations from her daughter, who is now an adult. The mother said the incidents occurred between 1979 and 1986. 
The allegation heated up a long-running feud between the church and several parishioners, including outspoken critic and church benefactor Ed Ricci, over Flynn.

UNANIMOUS DEFENSE VERDICT FOR GM DEALERSHIP IN FLORIDA ROLLOVER CLAIM
In the highest exposure case to go to trial since the bankruptcy, a General Motors dealer was awarded a unanimous defense verdict by a Broward County, FL jury on June 1, 2011. Plaintiffs asked for $20 million during closing arguments in this three-week wrongful death trial, Martin v. Holler Oldsmobile. 
The Martin case involved the death of 20-year-old Rachel Martin in a rollover of a GMT330 (1990's vintage Blazer/Jimmy/Bravada). The GMT330 was pegged by IIHS as the deadliest vehicle on the road. 

Federal transportation officials are dragging their feet by failing to issue a recall for explosion-prone General Motors pickup trucks and need to be pushed into action, auto safety attorney Ed Ricci charged on Tuesday.
Ricci, a co-founder of the Safety Attorneys Federation and a director of the Institute for Injury Reduction, said the two organizations he is affiliated with, along with 18 other national and state auto safety and consumer groups, are launching Campaign GM Firebomb, urging people to prod their elected representatives and federal officials into action.

On April 30th, Antipolygraph Org printed an article on "Backer suggests polygraphs for Priests". Please don't be fooled into thinking Attorney Ed Ricci believes in them. He has his own private examiner/investigator/etc. that does not print out any info, much less write reports on results. He is a smooth operator. He lulls clients in, and to stay within Florida ethics laws, claims clients failed exams and dismisses them. He is not a Criminal lawyer! Plain and simple. If there is not big bucks in the lawsuit, then its goodby client. Nice and neat. I know, my wife is one of his victims. Polygraphs work for him.. JK...

This is the line taken by Florida lawyer Ed Ricci, a fundraiser for Catholic causes who singlehandedly started a protest movement in his West Palm Beach diocese after his bishop, Anthony O'Connell, resigned on March 8 after admitting that he molested seminarians years earlier.
Ricci, a Jupiter, Fla., resident who claims to have given $2 million to Church causes over the last decade, and to have helped raise as a volunteer $785 million for the Church in the same period of time, publicly rescinded a $100,000 pledge to the local diocese in the wake of O'Connell's resignation, and said his fundraising days are over for now.
"I cannot go look a potential donor in the face and ask them to contribute money while the scandal is going on. I cannot and I will not," says Ricci, who says he's a regular massgoer.
His website is posting today a "substitute contribution form" for interested Catholics to print out and put in the collection plate instead of a donation. He says it will inform the parish that money will be withheld until the sex-abuse mess is cleaned up.
"My local pastor has said to me that while he respects my view, I'm going to deprive children of having their Catholic school," Ricci says. "My response is that my bishop and the local hierarchy should have realized that 30 years ago. That half-billion to one-billion dollars spent in hush money would have built a lot of schools."
Both Ricci and members of the Chicago committee express hope that their examples will be repeated by fed-up Catholic laymen. Says Ricci, "The only vote a Catholic has is with his wallet."
"I think we've set the stage here for what people can do," says Morrow. "I hope people across the country will see this, and do the same thing where they are."

Speakers: Ed Ricci, Esquire and Jeffrey Dion of the National Crime Victim Bar Association Location: Marriott Hotelat CityPlaceWest Palm Beach, Florida561-999-9490smaynor@pbctla.org
Description: Mr. Ricci and Mr. Dion together will address the very timely issue of Trial Lawyer Image. Mr. Ricci will discuss how the poor perception of trial lawayers adversely affects juries, and Mr. Dion will share his moving personal journey on behalf of crime victims' rights and discuss how trial lawyers and victims can work together to preserve access to civil justice.

Palm Beach Gardens attorney Ed Ricci, a prominent Catholic and frequent critic of the church, said Foley made himself part of the overall coverup by the Catholic Church by remaining silent when a sexual abuse scandal rocked the Diocese of Palm Beach in 2002. Bishop Anthony O'Connell resigned that year, admitting he had abused a boy 25 years earlier.
"If Mark Foley claims to be the leader he was, back in 2002, when his constituents needed help, he should have come forward to help them," Ricci said. "There were hundreds of people in his district who were shunned. He should have swallowed his pride."
Ricci said he is outraged at Foley's disclosure, calling it a "self-serving manipulation of the media and the public."
Mr. Ricci has his own axe to grind with the diocese. Dear wife knows the story, but she is safe at her family home in the Philippines. Besides because of her employment with the diocese, I can't disclose some information even If I knew the details.
Funny but no mention is made in this Sun-Sentinel article of the 1998 scandal where Bishop Keith Symons had to step down over a sex scandal. Why is that?
Again Mr. Ricci may have something to do with it. His anger with the diocese is closely related to the people running the diocese in 2002. The Sun-Sentinel and its reporter(and the rest of the local MSM) should really be more careful when choosing someone to comment on any controversy involving the diocese.

Edward M. Ricci elected as new president of Jupiter's El Sol Neighborhood Resource Center

O'Malley faces a daunting challenge to win the trust of new parishioners who have been shell-shocked by the sex-abuse scandal, said Ed Ricci, a lawyer and practicing Catholic in West Palm Beach, Fla.
''Although our faith in the doctrines of Christianity and Catholicism are not shaken, we're demoralized,'' said Ricci, a church fund-raiser who added that he does not know much about O'Malley. ''This is an issue of basic morality and basic human decency. The laity in this diocese ... have grave misgivings in placing their trust in the hierarchy of this diocese.''

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DEFENDER OF FAITH FINDS HIMSELF UNDER ATTACK; The pope is beset by

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley watches the Vatican with the eyes of a victim. The Lake Worth Republican resigned his congressional seat in 2006 over suggestive e-mails he sent to male teenage pages. He then revealed he had been molested by a priest as an 11-year-old altar boy. The priest verified Foley's account.
Foley said the pope is the only one who can rip open the suffocating shroud of secrecy that has surrounded priestly abuse for so long. He wants the pope to apologize in a way that can help all the victims recover from the damage done.
"The pope needs to take the moral imperative," Foley said. "He is the Vicar of Christ. He can say, 'Even I have made a mistake,' not just say, 'We're taking corrective action.'"
Staff researcher Niels Heimeriks and the Miami Herald contributed to this story.
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"The pope should wash the feet of sexual abuse victims," said Ed Ricci, a West Palm Beach attorney who has been advocating transparency in the diocese for the past decade.

Anthony Cassell, in "The Exiled Dante's Hope for Reconciliation: Monarchia 3:16.16-18," provides a convincing explanation of a difficult passage of Dante's political treatise, which thus offers all exiled people, betwixt and between body and soul, an additional example of an exemplary conduct and interpretation of exile. When the long-exiled Dante found himself again having to assert his opinions on the separation and correlation of the priestly and imperial powers in the Monarchia, he knew that he was entering a controversy that had simmered in different guises for centuries and that he directly blamed for his own banishment from his native city. 

Dante writes both of unity and of his own ultimate usefulness and belonging.

"If the matter gets before a court of appeal, they're going to slam him because they want judges on the bench who have clean records," said attorney Ed Ricci, one of dozens of attorneys accusing Diamond of having sinister motives for running against Bonavita.

Edward M. Ricci is a highly experienced consumer justice attorney recognized nationwide for his relentless pursuit of justice for his clients, making our country a safer place to live, work and drive.


For more than three decades, Edward M. Ricci, P.A. has specialized in civil trial law. He pursues justice for victims in the areas of auto accidents, personal injury and wrongful death, crash-worthiness (product defects), lawn tractor/riding mower accidents, insurance litigation and consumer claims.