In 2002 the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida launched a review of about 700 clergy files dating back to 1969 for evidence of sexual abuse. It was expected to take “several days.” No findings were made public. The investigation was because of charges against several clergy: Richard Arthur Pollard, convicting
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Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest John C. Cochrane
Episcopal priest John C. Cochrane was arrested twice in 2001 for soliciting sex while HIV positive. Cochrane tested positive for HIV in 1986, and admitted after his first arrest that he continued to engage in public sex and solicitation for 15 years before his arrests while he was a priest
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest James Holcomb Clark
Episcopal priest James Holcomb Clark was removed from the priesthood in 1995 by the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts. “Though many more women came forward” to make complaints about sexual harassment during Clark’s 33 years as rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, Massachusetts, ” only 17 made formal statements”
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: First Canterbury Securities: Raymond Jennison and William Warnky
In 2019 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) suspended investment banker Clayton Wertz of Dallas-based First Canterbury Securities for creating “false brokerage account statements to help a client secure and maintain a multi-million dollar bank loan and line of credit.” First Canterbury Securities was founded on September 1, 1982 by two
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