Trial Preparations and Full Explanations
As Tom Monaghan and his
Ave Maria generals (including Collier Co. CEO Paul
Marinielli) prepare to be deposed, a few things
are worth remembering:
In a July 20 2007 interview on Fox 2 News (Detroit),
AMSL Dean Bernard Dobranski said that Tom Monaghan
was informed of what transpired when the Law School
offered computer help to a local priest investigated
for child pornography (see BoysCherries series;
hear audio). According to Fox,
Monaghan's Law School chose not to share the
findings of its internal "investigation" with
police "claiming privacy and no fresh
information".
That said, Mr. Monaghan should be considered by
everyone to be a fully informed participant in
the BoysCherries incident. We give him no wiggle room
for claiming lack of understanding of all that
transpired. We trust that he was fully aware
of the fact that at least one of his Ave Maria
College employees was, according to police reports,
in direct contact with the priest's pornographic hard
drive. In the upcoming trial's fact finding, if
anything comes out showing inconsistency,
falsehood, half-truths, or more extensive involvement
of previously named or unnamed individuals, we will
hold Mr. Monaghan responsible for (a) not offering a
complete explanation of the events and (b) denying
the police their right to investigate matters for
themselves. It will be deeply problematic for
Monaghan if there is any whiff that what
transpired was more than what was publicly disclosed;
given the seriousness of the matter, a cloud of
distrust will hover over Monaghan in all things Ave
Maria, including his Town.
An explanation remains open as to how the priest and
his parish supporter - both of whom lacked computer
technical skill - garnered the instructions and skill
to remove the pornographic drive and to
install/format the brand new hard drive.
Before the trial starts, it is also worth considering
Dean Dobranski's boundless tolerance for the
outrageous public remarks made week after week by his
"buddy" AMSL Chaplain Fr. Michael Orsi (1,2,3,4)...
and compare that to Dobranski's harsh and abrupt
termination
of tenured founding professor Steve Safranek
based, supposedly, on thin
and misleading
reasons. Remember, it was Orsi who
invited the BoysCherries scandal upon the
Law School... and it was Orsi who, according to
reports, never even bothered to tell the Dean
about the incident until after Dobranski
was informed by another source.
Dobranski's seemingly insurmountable task is to put
lipstick on the obviously ugly mug of arbitrary
employee treatment, as typified by where Orsi and
Safranek are today. There isn't enough makeup at a
Marco Island community meeting to coverup that boss
hog.