Ex-mayor calls bankruptcy filing ‘part of cover-up’

A former three-term Albuquerque mayor is blasting the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying that it’s “simply a way of avoiding responsibility and is just one part of a continuing cover-up by the archdiocese.” “We now know that the archdiocese was substantially aware for years that its priests were raping children and that it did little or nothing to rectify it,” former mayor Martin Chávez wrote in an op-ed published in today’s Journal.

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