https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-dc-to-investigate-catholic-sexual-abuse

WASHINGTON – Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday that his office will open an investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the local archdiocese.

Racine announced the move Tuesday during a regular breakfast meeting among Washington officials. The Washington Archdiocese has been shaken recently by a pair of high-profile sexual abuse scandals — but neither of them involved abuse that took place in Washington.

Racine's office has limited powers; all felony cases in the District of Columbia are handled by the U.S. Attorney's office. However he is focusing on his authority to enforce a Washington law governing nonprofit organizations. Racine also cites a local law that requires any adult to report suspected child abuse or neglect to authorities.

The mandatory reporting law carries only a three-year statute of limitations, however there's no such limit on the law governing nonprofit organizations, giving Racine the authority to explore decades of archdiocese history.

"According to the law, nonprofits are required to work for a public purpose," Racine told a group of elected officials Tuesday morning. "If they are in fact covering up child sex abuse, that is clearly not in the public interest."

In a statement Tuesday, the archdiocese said church officials had met with Racine in September to brief him on the church's anti-abuse policies and procedures.

"We had a very productive exchange with the Attorney General and his staff," said Kim Viti Fiorentino, chancellor and general counsel for the archdiocese. "We explained that the problem of sexual abuse of minors in the archdiocese was an historical one - that to our knowledge there had not been an incident of abuse of a minor by an archdiocesan clergy member for almost 20 years." WHAT?

Racine, in an interview with The Associated Press, said his office, "appreciated their outreach." WHERE Is The Outrage???!!!

He said he decided to initiate the investigation after the August report by a Pennsylvania grand jury that detailed more than 1,000 abuse cases involving more than 300 priests dating back 70 years and a systematic cover-up by multiple church leaders. The report also detailed Cardinal Wuerl's alleged role in covering up cases and shuffling pedophile priests through multiple parishes.

The report, Racine said, "raised concern about concealment of evidence. We want to make sure that none of that happened here in Washington."

Earlier this month in a bid for transparency, the local archdiocese released a list of 31 clergy members it said had been "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors. Most of the cases date back multiple decades and only three of the alleged abuses took place after 2000. Of the 31 men listed, 16 are dead.

The Washington Archdiocese holds a powerful place in the American church hierarchy. In addition to being the home of the federal government, Washington contains important Catholic institutions like the Vatican's embassy and Georgetown University.

KARL RACINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Racine

Karl A. Racine (born 1963) is the first ever independently elected attorney general of the District of Columbia, a position he has held since January 2015.[1] Prior to his election, he was the managing partner of Venable LLP.[2][3][4]

Born in Haiti, Racine and his family fled the Duvalier regime and emigrated to Washington, D.C. when he was three years old.[5] He attended public schools until eighth grade and graduated from St. John's College High School,[5] and was a star high school basketball player.[4]

Racine attended the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he worked at a pro bono clinic representing migrant farm workers.[2][5] He said he was drawn to the law because of the role lawyers played in advancing civil rights.[5] While in law school, he and his mother produced the first Haitian Creole/English legal dictionary, intended to aid Haitian immigrants in the United States.[2]

After graduating from law school in 1989, Racine joined Venable LLP but left in 1992 to become a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.[2][4] He then returned to private practice at Cacheris & Treanor, where he handled large white-collar and civil cases,[2] and later served as associate White House counsel in the Clinton administration.[2][6] In addition, he served as a member of the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission,[7] a selection panel for judges. Racine returned to Venable in 2000 and was elected managing partner in 2006, becoming the first black managing partner of a top-100 law firm.[2][4][6]

He has also been active in aiding his native Haiti, raising $125,000 from Venable's lawyers, staff, and foundation to support relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake[23] and raising money for the Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP).[24]

Racine served as a board member of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia,[20] as a member of the steering committee of the Whitman-Walker Clinic's Legal Services Program[21] and as a board member of the local literacy organization Everybody Wins.[22]

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CLINTON TIES

https://www.washingtonian.com/2014/10/27/bill-clinton-endorses-karl-racine-for-dc-attorney-general/

Bill Clinton Endorses Karl Racine for DC Attorney General

Former President Bill Clinton is throwing his support behind Racine over four other candidates to become the District’s first elected attorney general, Racine’s campaign says. A few weeks ago, President Obama endorsed Muriel Bowser in the November 4 mayoral election.

Clinton is tapping Racine thanks to his work as an associate White House counsel during Clinton’s second term, during which time Racine worked on Clinton’s impeachment proceedings in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-slated-headliner-nyc-fundraiser-women-ag-candidates/

Clinton Slated as Headliner at NYC Fundraiser for Women AG Candidates

Another special guest at this evening's fundraiser is Karl Racine, the Democrat AG in the District of Columbia who has sued the Trump administration over the Constitution's "emoluments clause," for the president's ongoing financial stake in commercial interests such as the Trump Hotel in D.C.

I don't know, somehow I don't think this guy is going to dig really deep when it comes to investigating the DC diocese and their involvement in clerical sexual abuse of Our Children. Do you?

In his Wiki it does not give the name of his Father or Mother and his birth year is 1963 (age 54-55) Which one is it, don't they know? Hmm.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/dc-attorney-general-launches-investigation-into-catholic-church-abuse-cover

DC Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Catholic Church Abuse Cover-Up

Karl Racine made the announcement Tuesday at a breakfast with elected officials. It comes one day after the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jesse Liu, set up a sex abuse hotline to report crimes committed by priests in D.C., and less than two weeks after Cdl. Donald Wuerl announced that the pope had accepted his resignation.

Pizzagate related because we have an AG Karl Racine heading the investigation into the DC diocese of clerical sexual abuse of Children while he has connections to the very people that we are researching here day after day for their involvement with trafficking children out of Haiti.