Cipolla's 1978 accuser's fictional tale of being forced to "drop the charges."

This is actually a supplement to the original post which addressed the fact that Diane Thompson lied when claiming to have been "forced" by D.A. Bob Colville to drop criminal charges in 1978, against a Father Anthony Cipolla who never had any charges filed against him, in the first place.  

This is important, because the Anthony Cipolla Case is what rocketed Donald Wuerl into stardom, in the early 1990s.  The narration of the entire case was a long string of misrepresentations ... of easy-to-prove lies.  

The outrage is that Donald Wuerl, his lawyers, and his de facto media puppet did NOT come forth and tell the Public that lies were being told about the Cipolla Case, per se.  Wuerl consented in the People being completely deceived for decades.  I was one of those deceived people.  But, I learned from experience and detailed research to NOT trust anything produced by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Period.

Above:  The  newspaper whose subscriber numbers were so low that its management ... after a strike & an unfavorable US Supreme Court ruling ... designated it for end-of-operations, as of May 3rd, 2026.  Then, a non-profit group purchased it and its potentially huge liability, in terms of long-term defamation.

Below are three previews of the original post which inspired the need of this educational supplement you are viewing.  Of course, the need for this comes from the observation that Americans, on average, know very little about American legal procedure.

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"Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case.  This included the Diane Thompson of 1978, especially concerning an Anthony Cipolla who was NOT charged for any crime in the same year of 1978.

This is because the power to drop criminal charges is reserved solely to the sovereign-governing-authority which is referred to as "the State."  This includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases, being that the federal government is also regarded as "the State."  After all, the United States has a live human functioning as an administrative authority called the Secretary of STATE.

Every criminal case in America begins with "The State of Such-and-Such vs defendant-of-the-case."  Even federal criminal cases begin with "the United States vs defendant-of-the-case."  

Therefore, only the court officers of the prosecuting State or the United States have the power to dismiss charges that have already been filed in the name of a prosecuting State or in the name of the United States.  

And of course, this equally means "dismiss the charges," "withdraw the charges," "drop the charges," and "Nolle Prosequi."

If Diane Thompson did sign something under duress in Bob Colville's office on August 28th, 1978, then it was pointless, because Bob Colville would have had nowhere to have taken that sheet of paper.  It would have been a very useless sheet of paper."  

Moreover, any other procedural matter concerning Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville."

 

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"HOWEVER, in order for a "complainant" to withdraw her Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint in the 1970s, the "COMPLAINANT" had to ...

... appear AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE in person, to get the paperwork done, and NOT in any county District Attorney's office.  This included Bob Colville's office, in 1978.  

Moreover, there is a decisive difference between a citizen filing a private criminal complaint and a government authority filing criminal charges.  

A private citizen's complaint is NOT the filing of charges  It's a request for the government to file charges, based on the private citizen's complaint.  Thus, if charges have not yet been filed, then a private citizen may withdraw his/her private citizen's complaint.  If charges have already been filed, then the private citizen CANNOT withdraw his/her private citizen's complaint."

Let us commence: 

As far back as the 1990s, the Post-Gazette joined forces with the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson and reported that Anthony Cipolla was found to be as guilty as sin through 1978 DNA testing.  It also reported that Cipolla was then arrested, and was then rescued by the county D.A. who forced this Diane Thompson to drop the charges.

There was no DNA evidence of any kind involved with the case which only lasted for 35 days.  As I stated 8 to 12 times previously,  it took an average of 52 days for DNA testing to produce results, in 1978.  

The Cipolla Case only lasted for 35 days, from July 25 to August 28th, 1978.  Meanwhile, 52 days after July 25th is/was September 15th.  Thus, even if there were DNA testing which was started on the first day of the Cipolla Case, it was not enough time for there to have been DNA test results presented to Judge Laffey ... or even to the DA's office.   

Plus, there was no mention of any presence of any semen anywhere on Tucker Thompson, in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report signed by the Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length.  

That report's medical section reported zero harm done to the young Tucker whose name appears on the report as "Thomas Thompson."  It was therefore reported that there existed no medical evidence that any crime had been committed against the nine-year-old Tucker, on July 25th, 1978.  Period.

The supportive facts of a flagrantly misrepresented case

Always remember.  The Cipolla case is what rocketed Donald Wuerl to his undeserved stardom.  It was a case presented by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette as nothing more than an outlay of falsehoods that Donald Wuerl let go uncorrected.  Thus, Wuerl rose to power & influence through LIES that he let stay intact.

The problem is that this entire story is an easily provable lie.  Firstly, in 1978, there were no "Detectives Nehouser & Fogle."  Now, there was a Mark NINEHOUSER who was an uniformed officer, and I did speak with him at length.  In fact, I located him through the Pittsburgh Steeler organization.  None the less, Mark Ninehouser clearly made it known to me that he did NOT arrest Anthony Cipolla, ever.  

Moreover, as is proven by referring to the July 25th, 1978 O/I Report, Allegheny General Hospital did NOT mention the presence of semen on Tucker Thompson or on his clothing or on his property.  All that was mentioned was that Tucker's medical condition was "GOOD."  

This means that there was no semen found, and therefore, no semen was involved.  If it were, then the July 25th O/I report would have mentioned it.

1] Concerning Diane Thompson's very defamatory DNA claim of Allegheny General Hospital's lab identifying incriminating evidence against Cipolla in a very short period of time:

2a] Below is posted more confirmation that there actually was NO MENTION of semen being found on Tucker in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incidence Report.  In fact, the only statement from Allegheny General Hospital which was recorded in the July 25th O/I Report was that "Thomas Thompson's" medical condition was GOOD.  

2b] There were two blank spaces after the word, GOOD.  If an injury or abnormality or evidence of criminal conduct had been found, then it would have been stated in that blank space.

Above is the top part ... about a third of ... the one-page July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report, signed by Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length.

Look at the bottom line, right-hand side of the photo above.  The 9 year old Thomas Thompson's medical condition was GOOD.  Below that line are two lines reserved for medical exam comments.  There were no medical exam notes made on those two lines, meaning that it was a very unremarkable exam with no injuries or abnormalities found.  This means that there was found by the licensed & board-certified examiner:

1] NO BLEEDING,  2] NO BRUISES,  3] NO SCRAPES,  4] NO LACERATIONS,  5] NO SEMEN,  6] NO RECTAL OR GENITAL ABNORMALITIES,  7] NO BROKEN BONES, 8] NO VASELINE or other lubricant on or near the rectal area ... and as time proceeded,  9] NO EVIDENCE OF ANY STD.  

This means that there was NO EVIDENCE that any crime had been committed on July 25th, 1978 against Tucker Thompson, in the first place.  

Even at that, Tucker claimed that he was molested only TWICE by Cipolla; once near the July 4th holiday season and once on September 25, 1978, shortly after Diane Thompson's request for apartment rent money from Anthony Cipolla's parish was denied.

More specifically, Diane Thompson first asked Cipolla if he could get the ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY to donate the rent money on a monthly basis.  Then came the speech from Cipolla's superior mentioning how the parish was not a charity organization.  

Now, the St Vincent de Paul Society was a charity organization.  But, its currency came from "current donations" in the 1970s, as opposed to endowment accounts and retained dollars.  

In the 1970s, there was a decline in the Faith, and people were not as charity-minded to religion as much as to sociological justice groups and political organizations, as well as fundraising drives for specific terminally ill neighbors and youth sports' organizations.

Moreover, in the general history of the Catholic Church, its predominant wealth comprised =====> real estate ... land holdings ... more than currency.  Simultaneously came invaluable art, such as that which the Byzantine Empire produced.  Its art was literally made of gold, from time to time.

2c] Concerning the July of 1978 timeline, why didn't Diane Thompson have the wisdom "to drag out of Tucker" the deep, dark secret of the alleged July 4th holiday season molestation, as quickly as she did on July 25th?  

ANS:  The only answer would be that she ALLEGEDLY lied to police on July 25th, desperate over the fact that Cipolla told her that his parish ... or the St Vincent de Paul Society ... could not afford to pay her apartment rent. 

Engel came up with a backward conclusion; a conclusion in reverse 

Concerning Randy Engel's claim that Cipolla hunted down the two lads, for a time of "grooming," Diane Thompson ALLEGEDLY approached Cipolla and his pastor first.  It was NOT visa-versa.  She was undoubtedly "hard-up for money" and she gravitated toward the parish where Cipolla was stationed.  She was looking for charity dollars.  

Concerning Diane Thompson asking Cipolla to get his pastor to have the parish ... actually the St Vincent de Paul Society ... pay her monthly apartment rent, below is a very important note:

Cipolla did confer Diane Thompson's request for rent money with his parish pastor. Cipolla would have instantly known that Diane Thompson was soon to be evicted from her apartment.  This meant that, IF Cipolla wanted to molest Frank Labiaux and Tucker Thompson on a long-term basis ...  with "free rein" ... then Cipolla would have gone out of his way to make sure that Diane Thompson's rent would get paid monthly.

Cipolla did NOT do that.  Cipolla showed that he was more than willing to let Diane Thompson, Tucker Thompson, and Frank Labiaux go far far away from him, to another domicile.

In as much, the fact that Cipolla did NOT go out of his way to make sure that Labiaux and Tucker would continue living nearby him shows that Cipolla WAS NOT grooming the two youths for long-term sexual abuse, as Randy Engel claimed.

Now remember, this post is basically a tutorial, being that Americans know very little of American law.  The original article which inspired this tutorial can be found by clicking here:

https://www.donaldwuerl.com/2026/09/clerk-of-courts-at-your-service.html

Cipolla's 1978 accuser LIED about being forced to "drop the charges," by the D.A.

At the outset of this tutorial, regarding the Case of the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla, the block of information below needed to be posted.  The need of cutting to the chase and posting this specific information is due to decades of false & defamatory newspaper reporting against Cipolla.

The defamatory reporting is mostly due to the newspaper which recently had such a low number of subscribers that it couldn't economically survive the effects of a recent strike and a recent US Supreme Court decision.  

Concerning this defamatory newspaper, it was scheduled for closure, on May 3rd, 2026.  In the past 20 years of operation, it reportedly lost $350 million in operating costs & investment dollars.

So, take note of the information below and absorb it into your memory bank.

 

The OHIO LIE of none other than Diane You-Know-Whom 

For the record, as was previously mentioned in another post, that the most recent defamation against Cipolla was the claim that people in Ohio were coming out of the proverbial woodwork, accusing him of molestation and filing lawsuits against him ... four and five years AFTER his death, in 2020, 2021 or 2022.  

Well, in the entire history of Ohio, from the first day when the first white man walked on its terrain, all the way to August 31, 2026, not a single person in Ohio or originally from Ohio ever accused Anthony Cipolla of molestation.  This was yet another Diane Thompson LIE. 

Well, the fact-checking, which was the result of extensive work, showed that the Cipolla Case, as it was presented to the public, was one continuous string of falsehoods ... an absolute insult to the intelligence of any reasonable person who is even slightly familiar with American legal procedure.  

The presentation of that case was one sick joke.  Those falsehoods are addressed in sufficient detail, at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site.  Go see for yourself, line-item by line-item ... in the August & September 2026 archives. 

The 1990s, when cover-up artist, Wuerl, artificially became a star 

The 1990s newspaper narration of Diane Thompson being coerced into signing a 1978 sheet of paper in Bob Colville's office that was needed to "drop the charges" against Anthony Cipolla ... which were never filed in the first place ... shows how much of a liar she was and how much of a bunch of liars were the editors of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  

This also showed how much of a team of liars Wuerl & his attorneys were, in not correcting the falsehoods being reported as fact.  After all, this is the lying newspaper whose people spent over a decade very falsely calling the blatantly manipulative and even vengeful Donald Wuerl the Bishop of Zero Tolerance ... as well as the Model of Zero Tolerance.  

And of course, Wuerl displayed much tolerance toward Wolk, Zula, Pucci, Zirwas, Hoehl, Burchianti, Huff, and other priests of a criminal nature.

None the less, this is also the newspaper whose subscriber numbers were so low ... in the newspaper's unpopularity ... that management decided to close down all operations of it, by May of 2026.  Then, a non-profit organization purchased it, designating it to release publications two days a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays. 

The Bob Colville Coercion Tale proved that the Thompson Clan and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors were clueless as to basic procedural law in the United States 

In review, for those of you who are exceptionally stubborn, exceptionally bigoted, and/or exceptionally brainwashed by either the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or writer Randy Engel or any Wuerl-influenced entity: 

The entire narration of the August 1978 Bob Colville Coercion Tale was was a harrowing one, where Diane Thompson was brought into Bob Colville's office and was then illegally detained there ... until she signed a sheet of paper that was needed "to drop the charges" filed against Anthony Cipolla.  

Yet, as of August 28th, 1978, Cipolla had neither been put in handcuffs nor put behind county jail bars, simply because no charges were filed against him.  The entire "filing of charges" tale was a deliberate lie.  Meanwhile, the "dropping the charges" tale was a much bigger lie.

In as much,  here is a re-Reality Check for you people out there who never studied law and who are still in denial that Randy Engel, Renew America, and others LIED about the 1978 Cipolla Case ... in your belief that Colville forced Diane Thompson to "drop the charges" ... which were never filed, in the first place:

 

Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case.  This included the Diane Thompson of 1978, especially concerning an Anthony Cipolla who was NOT charged for any crime in the same year of 1978.

This is because the power to drop criminal charges is reserved solely to the sovereign-governing-authority which is referred to as "the State."  This includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases, being that the federal government is also regarded as "the State."  After all, the United States has an administrative authority called the Secretary of STATE.

Every criminal case in America begins with "The State of Such-and-Such vs defendant-of-the-case."  Even federal criminal cases begin with "the United States vs defendant-of-the-case."  

Therefore, only the court officers of the prosecuting State or the United States have the power to dismiss charges that have already been filed in the name of a prosecuting State or in the name of the United States.  

And of course, this means "dismiss the charges," "withdraw the charges," "drop the charges," and "Nolle Prosequi."  Each phrase means the same thing.  

Doubly important is the fact that, in the 35-day-long Cipolla Case of 1978, there were NO CHARGES to be dismissed in the first place, being that no charges were ever filed.

If Diane Thompson did sign something under duress in Bob Colville's office on August 28th, 1978, it was pointless, because Bob Colville would have had nowhere to have taken that sheet of paper.  It would have been a very useless sheet of paper," especially in light of the fact that Cipolla was NOT arrested in 1978, in the first place.  

Moreover, any other procedural matter concerning Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville.

 

So, what did she do on August 28th ... 1978? 

Well, ladies & gentlemen, the only procedural thing that Diane Thompson could have done on Monday, August 28th, 1978 was "withdraw her private criminal complaint."

Now, a private criminal complaint is a petition to the "court of jurisdiction" to file charges.  It is NOT the act of filing charges.  

Then, there is the matter of withdrawing a private criminal complaint.  Firstly, if the DA acts upon the private criminal complaint and does file charges, then the complainant cannot file a withdrawal.  A complainant can only withdraw her criminal complaint IF neither the DA nor a presiding judge filed charges against the accused.

This is because, as soon as criminal charges are filed anywhere in the United States, the case is put solely in the hands of the prosecutor and the judge.  

No civilian anywhere on Earth can "drop the charges" against any defendant anywhere in United States jurisdiction, in criminal law. NOT even Diane Thompson could have done this in Bob Colville's office, in 1978.

Procedural Review 

As a quick lesson, if the DA's office has not yet acted on the private criminal complaint, and if the judge did not yet "issue process" and have the accused person arrested, then a private citizen can withdraw his/her complaint.  IN order to do so, the COMPLAINANT had to ...

... appear AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE in person, to get the paperwork done, and NOT in any county District Attorney's office.  This included Bob Colville's office, in 1978.  

As a reminder for the stubborn, there is a decisive difference between a citizen filing a private criminal complaint and a government authority filing criminal charges.  A private citizen's complaint is NOT the filing of charges  It's a request for the government to file charges.  

Thus, if charges have not yet been filed, then a private citizen may withdraw his/her private citizen's complaint.  If charges have already been filed, then the private citizen CANNOT withdraw his/her private citizen's complaint.  If he/she could do so, it would be pointless.  The charges would still stand."

 

In some jurisdictions, a judge requires a probable cause hearing to be concluded first, before accepting the complainant's private  citizen's complaint and then having it filed.  The act of a judge ordering the arrest of an accused person is known as "issuing process."

 

Therefore, in such cases where a judge finds "no fair probability that any crime was committed and that the accused was likely involved," the case is dismissed without the need of any complainant signature.

 

Therefore, it's possible that, on August 28th, 1978, Diane Thompson signed nothing.  In such a case, what she would have done, therefore, was ... "defaulted" and then proverbially disappeared.  

 

 

Diane Thompson's Lie at First Sight, in this harrowing 1978 tale

 

 In legal documentation & procedural law there is no such thing as "pressing charges."  That is a colloquial phrase used for those who have no legal educational background.  Moreover, there is a difference between 1] filing a private criminal complaint and 2] filing criminal charges.  

In review, being that Americans can be really stupid when it comes to understanding legal procedure, when you file a private criminal complaint, you are asking the court to file the charges for you.  The court you are asking is the one who has jurisdiction over your case.  

It is never a matter of you filing charges.  Thus, when you file a private criminal complaint, you are not filing charges.  When you file such a complaint, charges are only "pending" and charges in your personal case may never get filed, if the Burden of Proof standard is NOT satisfied.

In a Probable Cause Hearing the Burden of Proof Standard is lower than the standard for a "full hearing based on the merits."  None the less, one requirement for a judge to approve the issuing of an indictment is that the complainant has to "show reasonable grounds that a violation has probably occurred."  

Now, according to the July 25th, 1978, Offense/Incident Report signed by Officer Mark Ninehouser, there was no evidence that Tucker Thompson, aka Thomas Thompson, was violated.  After all, the Allegheny General Hospital finding of Tucker's condition was classified as "GOOD."

No mention of bruises, blood stains, cut marks, scratch marks, red marks, semen, or anything similar.  

And of course, being that the average amount of time it took for DNA test results to be produced in 1978 was 52 days, there wasn't the time for any DNA test result to be submitted into evidence, even if there were semen found on Tucker.  This is because the 1978 Cipolla Case lasted for only 35 days. 

The O/I Report was NOT the conclusion of the police officer.  It was literally quotes of what the Thompson Clan alleged.  There was no cross-examination done at that time.  Therefore, that which was printed by the officer on the O/I Report was NOT the officer agreeing with Diane Thompson and the young "Thomas Thompson."  It was simply Officer Ninehouser stating the accusations of the Thompson household against Cipolla.  

The fact that the July 25th medical exam report marked Tucker's medical condition was GOOD, when he was supposed to have been recently molested a few hours prior, would be the reason why no police officer submitted a Police Affidavit to any magistrate and why the Allegheny County DA declined to indict Cipolla.  

Very simply, there was no evidence against Cipolla, according to the O/I Report.  There were only unproven accusations.

The rapid time between the "alleged" molestation and the calling of police made the entire accusation look like a premeditated scheme 

Another important feature of the July 25th, 1978, O/I Report is that, according to Diane Thompson and "Thomas 'Tucker' Thompson," Cipolla molested Tucker between 3:10 PM and 4:30 PM.  

Well, Diane Thompson literally called the police at 5:15 PM.  This means that she was supposedly able to "pry out of Tucker" deeply troubling concealed information within 45 minutes to 2 hours after Tucker was molested ... and within one hour after Tucker got home.

The point here is that Diane Thompson claimed that she had to extract a secret from Tucker.  Well, in past cases throughout America, it would not be for weeks or months or even years that a molestation victim would finally reveal the incidents of his molestation to an adult.  Yet, Diane Thompson claimed to have "finally" extracted deeply hidden information within one to two hours after a molestation event.  

Such a thing would have broken some kind of speed record, indeed.  But, such a rapid time span makes the entire thing look like a premeditated con game, especially shortly after Diane Thompson was denied her request to have Cipolla's parish (or the St Vincent de Paul society, through the parish) pay her monthly apartment rent.  

As the past 35 years have illustrated, accusing a priest of molestation can be a very lucrative undertaking in the United States, especially for people who need apartment rent money.   

All in all, on Monday, August 28th, 1978, Diane Thompson was not able to even to show to Judge Laffey that a violation had probably occurred on her son.  Thus, her attendance at an August Probable Cause Hearing was a certain loss for Diane Thompson.  So, she had to make up a harrowing tale of corrupt government officials and church officials sabotaging her case and forcing her to drop the charges which no civilian can drop in any criminal case in the United States, anyway.

The general rule of the private citizen's criminal complaint 

When it comes a private citizen's criminal complaint, it is never a matter of you pressing charges.  If any person in America could file criminal charges, then there would be total chaos in the court system.  Con artists and vengeful people would be filing charges to the point of overloading the legal system and causing it to be unable to operate.

When neither judge nor prosecutor approved of a private citizen's criminal complaint 

If neither a DA nor a judge approved the private criminal complaint, it used to be that the "complainant" was left to do the prosecuting, himself/herself.  But, the civilian did the prosecuting under the watchful eye of an assistant DA.  Technically, such a thing is "an oversight prosecution," with the assistant DA doing the overseeing.

And of course, it has always been a rarity for a private citizen to prosecute a case in America.  Even at that, during such rare cases the civilian prosecutor still had no power to "drop the charges" during the transpiration of the case.  Only the judge had that power.

Concerning judges and/or DA's accepting a private citizen's criminal complaint and then filing charges against the accused, during 1978,  about 10% of the criminal cases in the USA were started by a private criminal complaint ... where the DA took-over and prosecuted the whole case without the help of the private citizen complainant. 

Today, if a private citizen is denied his/her request to have criminal charges filed against the accused, then that private citizen can file in United States District Court, asking for an injunction ordering the DA to file criminal charges.  

Moreover, if a police officer submits a POLICE AFFIDAVIT, then the presiding judge can declare due cause, pursuant solely to the police affidavit,  and indict the accused person(s).  In that case, no private citizen's complaint is needed.    

Here is the pertinent question, concerning the 1978 Cipolla Case:

Q: Which actual persons caused criminal charges to be filed against Anthony Cipolla, according to Diane Thompson's fictional tale?

ANS: According to Diane Thompson and certain writers, the filing of charges against Cipolla in 1978 ... which were never filed in the first place ... was done by "Detectives" Nehouser and Fogle.  

In reality, the detectives were the late Warren Broz who died in 2020 or so, and the Detective Leo Marchetti who died in 2012.  They did NOT arrest Cipolla.  In fact, Broz ended up becoming a desk sergeant for a long period of time, after having been a detective.

So, process this contradiction in your mind:  

According to Diane Thompson, two guys named Nehouser and Fogle arrested Cipolla, filing criminal charges against him, in late July 1978.  Then, Diane Thompson magically had the power to drop the charges, by signing a sheet of paper in Bob Colville's office, in late August of 1978.  

If she did not do the filing of charges, then how is it that she got the power to dismiss the charges?  The answer is that her whole Colville Signing Story is a wall-to-wall lie.  Cipolla was never charged, in the first place.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was either too dishonest or too incompetent to fact-check this damning story which defamed Colville as much as it defamed Cipolla.

All in all, Diane Thompson LIED.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette repeated her LIE.  And Randy Engel LIED, while acting as if to be a law professor, when she was nothing more than a babbling buffoon. 

Of course, Engel spent a third of her defamatory 2016 article mentioning how the detectives ... which were given the wrong names by Engel ... were telling Thompson how they hoped that she would stand strong and NOT succumb to being pressured into dropping charges by the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Cipolla's lawyer.  

Well, Diane Thompson had zero authority to drop any criminal charges anywhere in the USA at any time, in 1978.  Randy Engel wrote a series of LIES, in 2016.

 

Now, as far as went Diane Thompson withdrawing her private criminal complaint ... or perhaps it was a matter of Judge Laffey not permitting it to have been filed in the first place ... it would only have been because she had not met the Burden of Proof Standard to prosecute Cipolla ... and because she had no idea how to prosecute a case herself ... 

... and allegedly because she didn't want to get in trouble for allegedly filing a false police report and for allegedly lying to the police.  After all, Allegheny General Hospital found zero evidence that any kind of crime had been committed upon "Thomas Thompson," on July 25th, 1978.

None the less, perceive what the Post-Gazette and Thompson ... in the Court of Public Opinion ... were accusing the 1978 DA's office of having done. 

 

This shows that Diane Thompson & the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette personnel ... in the 1990s & in the 2010s ... were nothing but a bunch of liars thinking that Pittsburghers are stupid enough to believe anything stated by the Post-Gazette, as if it were the Infallible Voice of God.  

Well, the Post-Gazette was only the Voice of Annoyance and it was been an Insult to the Intelligence of the Reasonable Pennsylvanian.  It's grand DECLINE in subscribers in the 2010s & 2020s proves this to be so.  

Plus, the Post Gazette management was not very kind to its employees.  Due to low subscriber numbers, the Gazette could NOT afford to be kind to its employees. 

It's no wonder why the Post Gazette underwent a decline in subscriber numbers so significant that its management planned to shut down operations by May of 2026.  Then, a certain non-profit organization purchased it.  Well, that non-profit organization purchased a severe liability.  If you're going to do that, you might as well hire a reckless driver to be your personal chauffeur.  

Part 1: Cipolla's zero criminal charges VS Fr. Zula's 130 counts

August 30th, 2026 was the tenth anniversary of the sudden & violent death of heart surgery patient & neuropathy sufferer, Anthony Cipolla.  He was also the victim of thoroughly fact-checked accusations  which turned out to be definitively proven lies.  

 

Examples of those lies are in this post, for familiarization purposes.  A series of them, in sufficient detail, comprises a number of other posts in the August & September 2026 archives of the Wuerl-of-Hurt site.  And of course, Cipolla is not the only subject/topic presented at this site.

  

 

 

Due to the unending attacks upon a deceased man unable to defend himself ... up front is the case used by Donald Wuerl as a diversionary tactic that created a smoke screen for Wuerl's undisputed abusive priests.  This same Cipolla Case was also presented to the public in a very false light.  

 

Then there was 2016, the year Cipolla died.

  

Ten years ago, the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla was being traumatized by a defamatory three-part article written by a woman named Randy Engel.  He was being given ZERO rest & ZERO peace in 100% of his waking hours.  He then ran out of hours.

 

The pertinence to this is that traumatizing a heart patient to death involves what is known as the Eggshell Skull Rule.  It's also known as the Talem Qualem Rule.  People have been indicted, convicted, and sentenced to penitentiaries for such deadly actions.

In the continuing saga of Donald Wuerl's well established hypocrisy, in letting himself be called "the bishop of zero tolerance," he was covering up for Richard Zula, despite Zula's well known violent reputation which earned for him the nickname, "Sade."   

When it came to Zula, as well as Wolk, Pucci, Zirwas, Huff, Burchianti, and John Hoehl, Donald Wuerl was no bishop of zero tolerance.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette very falsely claimed he was.  And of course, the subscribership of the Post-Gazette was so low that the Post-Gazette had to schedule the cessation of operations, for May 3rd, 2026, until an ill-advised non-profit group purchased it.

A Long Time a Lyin' about the same one tortured person 

As far as go the examples of the falsehoods which demonized Anthony Cipolla, [1] he was never arrested in his life, especially in 1978;  [2] Donald Wuerl's official "Just Cause" for defrocking Cipolla in the early 1990s, was NOT sexual abuse.  In fact, the 1995 Vatican Rehearing had nothing to do with Tim Bendig's or Diane Thompson's accusations against Cipolla.  

None the less, concerning Bendig, he tried to get Cipolla criminally indicted in two county jurisdictions.  Both attempts failed.  After all, Bendig alleged that he was molested by Cipolla, between the ages of 13 and 17, at the rectory of St. Canice Parish, when, in reality, during that specific time span, Cipolla was stationed 25 miles away, in New Brighton Pennsylvania.  

Cipolla was NOT living at St Canice, and no pastor or assistant pastor there was letting Cipolla use a bedroom at the rectory for five years of molestation.  Bendig apparently ... blatantly ... LIED.  And remember, Bendig lied to me four times in a row, during the same one private conversation I had with him, realizing how much of a liar he was.  The occurred some time around the Year 2014, give or take a year.

The Vatican Case   

The 1995 Vatican Rehearing had nothing to do with Bendig's accusations or those which came through a Diane Thompson.  The rehearing dealt with the question, if whether or not Wuerl had the right to entirely remove Cipolla from the "clerical state," based solely upon the diagnosis of a Maryland clinic which stated, "Clinical Depression and Suicidal Tendencies."  

And remember, I was handed the box of documentation pertaining to that case and the Bendig lawsuit, etc.  Proof that Wuerl had no new evidence for Wuerl's 1993 appeal to the Vatican, for a rehearing, consisted in the request letter sent out by the Pgh Diocese, shortly before the scheduled hearing.  

It was addressed to priests who were stationed with Cipolla, in the hunt for any enlightening revelations about Cipolla, in any category of information or opinion.  Even shortly before the rehearing, Wuerl and the diocese was scrambling, looking for incriminating evidence on Cipolla. 

https://www.donaldwuerl.com/2026/07/wuel-had-zero-evidence-against-cipolla.html

 

The 1995 Vatican Rehearing also sought to answer the question if Wuerl had the right to ignore the clean bill of mental health Cipolla received from a board-certified & licensed psychiatric facility in NYC, called St. Michael's.

 

[ Now, that which is pertinent here, in terms of the legality of Vatican procedure, is that Wuerl filed his appeal for a rehearing on March 21st, 1993.  

The letter is search of evidence against Cipolla was sent out to priests who personally knew him, on April 6th, 1993, during Holy Week.  This was 16 days AFTER Wuerl filed his appeal, meaning the Wuerl filed an appeal without having any new evidence.  The appeal only stated that there "might" have been new evidence.  

An appeal dependent upon new evidence was filed without new evidence.  You could call this one of two things.  You could call this "a waiver" or you could call this typical 20th Century Vatican Corruption which got even worse after Ratzinger became pope.  Being that Wuerl didn't officially ask for a waiver, uhhm you could correctly guess that it was a matter of corruption ... or the use of an extreme loophole.

[3]  Once again, for those who are exceptionally stubborn, concerning Bendig's accusations, Bendig expressly claimed that Cipolla molested him for 5 years at the St Canice rectory, when Bendig was between 13 and 17 years old ... between 1982 and 1986.  Bendig expressly said that Cipolla would take him up to his bedroom in the rectory and molest him there.

The big problem here is that Anthony Cipolla was stationed 25 miles away, at the McGuire Memorial Home, beginning in December of 1983.  Cipolla did NOT have a bedroom at the St Canice Parish during three and a half to four of those years when Bendig claimed to have been molested at the rectory.  Observe:

 

[4] Moreover, there was never any DNA evidence against Cipolla, in the 1978 case, as Randy Engel very falsely claimed.  In fact, the 1978 case lasted a grand total of 35 days, and in the 1970s, it took 49 to 59 to 69 days to get a DNA test result produced.  

There wasn't enough time for a DNA test result to have arrived in the 1978 Cipolla Case.  And there was no semen found on Tucker Thompson, in the first place.  The July 25th, 1978 O/I Report did NOT mention any appearance of semen anywhere on Tucker, and the same O/I Report stated that Tucker's medical condition, as was assessed at Allegheny General Hospital, was 'GOOD.'

[5] Let us not forget Randy Engel's ever-so-damning claim that Diane Thompson had a husband who underwent a serious explosion and near-death injury, during military maneuvers, at the Spartanburg military base, in 1965.  

Randy stated that he was doing special forces training, for a tour of duty in Vietnam, when the 1965 Spartanburg "explosion" and wreck occurred.  

According to Randy, this Tom Thompson was never the same after his 1965 Spartanburg military base injury, eventually resulting in him committing suicide some time around 1977 or so.  

And then, according to Engel, the evil & treacherous Anthony Cipolla immediately moved-in and started to groom Frank Labiaux and young Tucker Thompson for molestation, resulting in the claim that Cipolla commenced his molestation routine in 1977.  

Engel stated that Cipolla took advantage of two children of a patriotic & heroic American who just couldn't be there to defend them.  Well, ladies & gentlemen, there is one super huge & multi-million dollar defamatory problem with Engel's 1965 Spartanburg Story:

The Spartanburg military based closed down completely in 1947, eighteen years before the arrival of 1965.  

There was no Tom Thompson selflessly and heroically serving his country in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1965.  There was no active duty military person assigned there at all, in 1965.  The story was a complete lie that demonized Cipolla significantly, yet again. 

The complete contradiction at the outset of 1978 accusations

In the July 25, 1978 O/I Report, Frank Labiaux was never mentioned as having claimed to have been molested, and the report stated that Tucker only claimed to have been molested twice.  

The first time Tucker claimed to have ever been molested was some time around the July 4th festivities of 1978 ... give or take a day or two.  

Now, Tucker claimed that he was molested while being tutored by Cipolla in a one-student first holy communion class ... in July.  The contradiction is this:  

Since when does a person hold a tutor session on the holidays? And and and and and, in the Catholic Church, during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, first holy communion was traditionally in April, May, and June.

None the less, in late July of 1978, Diane Thompson said she had to pry out of Tucker that which Cipolla allegedly did to Tucker.  Well, such prying usually only occurs weeks, months, and even years after a molestation.  How did she get info out of Tucker almost immediately, on July 25th?

And most importantly ... as was previously stated ... in the section of the O/I Report which mentioned Tucker having been taken to the hospital:

In the box which asked the alleged victim's medical condition, the official statement was "GOOD."  There was no mention of semen found on Tucker, in the official Offense/Incident Report.  All of this is already covered here, in detail, in other posts.

Concerning the claim that young Frank Labiaux was so frustrated over having been allegedly molested that he vandalized the nearby African Methodist Church, it was one big lie.  This is because the two acts of vandalism upon that church made the news, and the two vandals who were caught and arrested DID NOT include Frank Labiaux.  

Plus, the date of the actual occurrence of the vandalism differ drastically from the date Randy Engel reported.  The actual two vandalisms both occurred in November of 1978.  Diane Thompson and/or Frank Labiaux told Randy Engel that the vandalism of the African Methodist Church occurred in mid-1977.  This is already covered in another post.   

Diane Thompson and/or Frank Labiaux stole that news story and put Frank's face on it, to deceive people into thinking that something known in the area applied to Frank.  Well, it didn't.  Two older boys did the vandalizing a year and a half later than Frank and Diane claimed it to have occurred. 

In review, there was two and only two 

There were only two series of accusations leveled against Cipolla, and they were leveled slightly longer than nine years apart.  Each one was leveled by and/or through an individual who was desperate for money.  Each of these two persons asked entities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh for money and were then denied their requests.  They then leveled accusations against Cipolla.  

In fact, Bendig leveled accusations against nine other priests, in 1987.  Then, during his lawsuit deposition in the early 1990s, he was asked how he knew that the priests he mentioned were practicing sodomites. Bendig answered, "I heard it through the rumor mill.  Rumors."  Well, when Bendig mentioned this to the press, he made it sound as if he personally experienced each priest being a predator at the Pgh seminary.

There was the accuser mother of 1978 who asked for Cipolla's parish to pay her monthly apartment rent, and there was Tim Bendig who asked to be given severance money, as he left the Pittsburgh seminary from where he was expelled.  

In Bendig's case, Cipolla then told his Padre Pio Prayer Group attendees ... at the after-mass reception ... to stop sending money to Bendig at the Pittsburgh seminary, being that he was expelled from there.

In the Bendig case, Bendig told the Beaver County DA's office that he was molested by Anthony Cipolla for 5 consecutive years ... from the age of 13 to 17 ... at St Canice Parish, in Knoxville, PA.

Well, when Bendig was the age of 14 to 17, Anthony Cipolla was stationed at the McGuire Home in New Brighton, in Beaver County jurisdiction.  St. Canice Parish was/is in Allegheny County jurisdiction, within the 15210 zip code, and Cipolla was transferred when Bendig was 14 years old or so.

This is the first instance in the Bendig case, where it's "most probable" ... "almost certain" ... that Tim Bendig was fabricating a very false story.  Bendig lost track of his lies.

After all, if a person is not enduring "repressed memory," where the person forgets the entire scenario of having been molested, that person is going to easily tell anyone where he was molested, if he were truly molested for five consecutive years in the same one place.

 

Now remember, "rumor mill" is hearsay and not permitted in court ... unless the person alleged to have said or done something is deceased or otherwise unavailable to testify.  Moreover, the person who was claimed to have done or said something about which he is not available to confirm or deny with his own testimony is known as the declarant.

 

Moreover, Tim Bendig personally lied to me four times in a row.  Thus, my personal experience with Bendig is that he was definitely a liar ... a con artist.  

And of course, I cut off all communications with Bendig, because he would have lied about any meeting or conversation I would have had with him.  

This is why I also refused to ever talk to Diane Thompson and to ever write to Diane Thompson.  Plus, she is an annoying insult to any reasonable person's intelligence.