As the Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, the late Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua presided over a criminal enterprise. While his predator priests were out raping and molesting children, His Eminence was orchestrating a systematic coverup that kept the priests out of jail and their crimes out of the newspapers. On my blog in recent years, I've documented the  cynical dishonesty of the cardinal and his associates, some of whom are still at large. As the former religion reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer in the early 1990s, I was an eyewitness to these events:

• What the Cardinal Knew, or How to Hoover a Pedophile: How Cardinal Bevilacqua put two known abuser priests to work polishing his public image.
• Ongoing Archdiocese Fire Sale Exposes 19-Year Cover-Up of Cardinal Bevilacqua's Lavish Spending: How Cardinal Bevilacqua's PR henchmen made up a story to bail His Eminence out of a public relations jam down at the Jersey Shore.
• Inside the Archdiocese Spin Machine: How Cardinal Bevilacqua employed an outrageous liar as his paid mouthpiece.
• Post mortem: At the 2012 archdiocese sex abuse trial, hopes dim for Cardinal Bevilacqua's resurrection.

"Billy Doe," AKA Danny Gallagher, is the lying, scheming altar boy who sent three priests and a former Catholic schoolteacher to jail for an imaginary rape spree. For the past five years, BigTrial.net has documented all the lies in the case, as promulgated by a corrupt district attorney now sitting in jail, assistant district attorneys who engaged in deliberate prosecutorial misconduct, and a biased media that has ignored the truth, in favor of upholding fiction:

The Altar Boy's Lies:

• Billy Doe's Junkie Hustle: http://www.bigtrial.net/2013/02/billy-does-junkie-hustle.html
• How to Steal $5 Million from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia: http://www.bigtrial.net/2016/03/how-to-collect-5-million-from.html

Willful Prosecutorial Misconduct:

• Detective's Bombshell Affidavit Blows Up Billy Doe Case: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/05/detective-billy-doe-admitted-that-he.html
• A Prosecutor's 'Lost' Notes Mysteriously Reappear: http://www.bigtrial.net/2018/03/mia-prosecutors-notes-in-billy-doe-case.html
• A Prosecutor's Lost Notes And the Pack of Lies She Wrote: http://www.bigtrial.net/2018/03/a-prosecutors-lost-notes-and-pack-of.html

Media Malpractice:

• Before Rolling Stone Reporter Ran With Jackie's Fraudulent Story She Fell For Billy's BS: http://www.bigtrial.net/2014/12/before-rolling-stone-was-conned-by.html
• The Sounds of Silence: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/05/inky-rolling-stone-ignore-detective.html
• The Stonewallers;The DA, the Church And The Media All Close Ranks: http://www.bigtrial.net/2016/02/the-stonewallers.html

Rufus Seth Williams, the former Philly D.A., was so corrupt he wound up admitting in court that he took bribes and stole money from his own mother. He also sent four innocent men to jail for an imaginary rape spree invented by a lying, scheming junkie hustler dubbed "Billy Doe." Big Trial was  out front in documenting the many varied crimes of Williams against Lady Justice, which included not prosecuting perpetrators of domestic violence and robbery so he could show voters a lower crime rate and a higher conviction rate.

The Crimes:

• DA Refuses to Prosecute Bank Robber Caught Red-Handed: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/02/the-da-cops-and-south-philly-bank-job.html
• DA Won't Prosecute Domestic Violence: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/02/das-office-under-seth-williams-wont.html
• DA Won't Prosecute Domestic Violence, Part 2: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/02/missing-in-domestic-abuse-case-chunk-of.html
• DA To Start Charging Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/02/das-office-to-start-charging-more.html
• Shame Of The City: Our Lawless DA: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/02/shame-of-city-rufus-seth-williams-our.html
• Thanks to D.A., 300 Convicted Drug Dealers About To Hit Lottery: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/03/seth-williams-barred-from-union-league.html

The Punishment:

• DA Leaves Court In Handcuffs: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/06/da-leaves-court-in-handcuffs.html
• The Man Child In The Men's Room: http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/07/the-man-child-in-mens-room.html