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Off the record, Mitch Garabedian explains how he slipped the Church's sealed documents into a public filing, and why Rezendes still cannot simply walk into the courthouse to read them: "the Church does not want them to be found." The law left them public, but Boston did not.
❝ Monólogo · 10 frases A Very Foggy Memory
❝ Monólogo · 8 frases This Is Boston
Mitch Garabedian agrees to talk off the record and tells Rezendes how he caught the Church: he filed a motion, attached the sealed documents as exhibits, and exposed them through a public proceeding. The catch is that the documents are gone from the courthouse, because in Boston the Church removed them.
The scene turns a legal procedure into a horror story. On the surface it is Mitch walking Rezendes through the mechanics of a case — a deposition, a motion, a pile of exhibits — but each step reveals how completely the Church controls the game. The move is clever: by attaching the sealed documents to his own public motion, he made them legally visible, which is why Rezendes thinks he can just collect them. Then comes the turn: the documents are not there. "I know I did, but this is Boston," Mitch says, and the line does all the work, because it means the rules can be publicly satisfied and privately ignored. What was going to be the proof becomes a rumor of proof, and the enemy is not a lawyer but a city where one institution can quietly erase the record.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“You don't know the half of it. Trust me.”
A hook that says you have barely scratched the surface, and dares you to ask for more.
Informal
“And suddenly Father Benzevich has a very foggy memory.”
A dry statement that lands as an accusation: the convenient memory loss that everyone sees through.
Informal
“Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid.”
A pre-emptive defense that keeps a hard claim credible: not crazy, not paranoid, just experienced.
Informal
“And they prove everything. Everything.”
A line that lands like a hammer: not a piece of the truth, but all of it.
Neutral
Three years ago, I get a call from an ex-priest. Anthony Benzevich. and he saw Geoghan taking little boys up to the rectory bedroom, okay? So he's appalled, all right? Tells the bishop about it. The bishop threatens to reassign him to South America. Jesus. Yeah, all right. Benzevich reads that Geoghan's been charged with molesting hundreds of kids. All right? So he feels guilty. He calls me.
Rogers opposes my motion, so I have to make an argument as to why I'm allowed to depose. Father Benzevich a second time, okay? But this time, I'm allowed to attach exhibits. Do you follow what I'm saying? The sealed documents? Yes. I can attach the sealed documents that I've gotten in discovery, Mr. Rezendes, the same documents that your paper is currently suing for.
Siguiente · 16get on the same pageLa escena: Reporters Confront Boston CollegeIt means the conversation cannot be published or quoted, so Mitch can explain the case privately before deciding what can be used.
He attached them as exhibits to his own motion, and since that motion was public, the documents entered a public filing.
Because the Church had them removed from the courthouse, so even a public filing does not mean the records are actually there.
He means the Church holds enough local power that public rules can be satisfied on paper and ignored in practice.
