July 30, 2026

PART 1: Anthony Cipolla was NOT indicted or arrested in 1978 or ever.

If you're wondering why this particular subject matter is up top & up front top at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site, it's because August 2026 will be the tenth anniversary of Anthony Cipolla's violent death. 

Above:  This is where Donald Wuerl lived, while he was orchestrating the case that would destroy Anthony Cipolla for life and which would simultaneously provide for Wuerl a wide cloak of diversionary cover, to hide Wuerl's actual abusive priests ... 

... and doing so while Wuerl had non-Catholic Ann Rodgers-Melnick of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette LIE to humanity, proclaiming Cover-up Artist Wuerl to be the bishop of zero tolerance.

Incidentally, I presently live about six blocks away from that house.  This means that I'm typing this post six blocks away from Wuerl's former palatial living quarters which complemented his Marie Antoinette Lifestyle ... his Pillow Mint Lifestyle.

None the less, remember that Wuerl denied ever having been informed about the long-term sex abuse accusations against his D.C. predecessor, Theodore McCarrick.  Yet, a number of seminarians were writing about their fear of McCarrick's continuing sexual impositions as far back as 2002.  

Then, Wuerl suddenly claimed that he was temporarily suffering from AMNESIA, concerning the case of a major American cardinal, stationed at the United States' capitol, being accused of severe sex abuse.  Such accusations are so poignant that brain surgery patients such as Joe Biden could have easily remembered them.  

Yes, Biden had two brain surgeries back in 1988.  In fact, he had a stroke back in 1988.  This proves that the American voter doesn't know for whom he/she is voting most of the time.

Getting to the Point & Cutting to the Chase

This segment covers a couple samples of the blatant lies told by Randy Engel in her defamatory 2016 article.  That article emotionally traumatized Anthony Cipolla so badly that, shortly thereafter, he underwent a violent heart-related death while driving.  This resulted in a violent crash.  Of course, Anthony could not have done it without you, Randy.  Way to go.

For those unaware, 2016 was the year when Mrs Randy Engel wrote and got published the article which damned the existence of Anthony Cipolla from A to Z.  Like the typical Nazi German publication under Julius Streicher, the magazine which published Engel's defamatory 2-part article did NOT make room for Anthony Cipolla to be defended.
 
It was and still is as ANTI-AMERICAN a display of hypocrisy as you can find ... all done in the name of "renewing America."  That magazine needed to be titled, "Renewing Nazi Oppression."  Let us proceed:
 
We start with the very Contradictory Heat of July Lie 
 
According to a female writer named Randy Engel, in the Heat of Late July (1978), the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla was wearing a CASSOCK, while intruding on a single mom who, five days earlier, called the police and accused Cipolla of molesting a child or two of hers.  
 
As a reminder, Diane Thompson said that she had to "pry the information " out of Tucker ... after talking and talking and talking to him, finally getting the answer she sought, almost immediately after After Cipolla told her that his parish did not have the money to pay her monthly apartment and therefore could not do so.
 
This 1978 claim of having to "pry for information" from the young Tucker was the same type of thing said by the occasional social worker who pried outrageously ridiculous accusations from the mouths of the McMartin PreSchool children of the 1980s.  
 
There are a number of cases where a mother or a social worker claimed to have finally "pried out incriminating information" from youths who accused certain adults of outrageous crimes.  Each one of those cases turned out to be a hoax prompted by ... instigated by ... a relentless mother or social worker who kept badgering the children being interrogated for the answer that the mother or social worker wanted to hear. 
 
Cassocks in July is a fictional tale 
 
Concerning Randy Engel stating that Anthony Cipolla appeared on the porch of Diane Thompson's apartment in the Heat of July, while Tucker was diligently doing his homework in the middle of Summer Vacation, take note:
 
Cassocks are for cold-weather months, and are NOT typically worn in late July ... in the Northern Hemisphere ... in case you didn't know.  BTW, I asked a few former followers of Anthony Cipolla if anyone of them ever saw Cipolla dressed in a cassock.  The answer was always. "No."  So stated for the record.
 
Meanwhile, Mrs Randy Engel also asserted that Cipolla appeared while Young Tucker was diligently doing his homework at a kitchen table ... on July 30th, 1978.  Well, ladies & gentlemen, this was during the HEART OF SUMMER VACATION, when school had been out for over 7 weeks ... and while there were still five or so weeks of Summer Vacation remaining, before the ringing of the first school bell of 1978.

Plus, according to the same Randy Engel, the father of one of the two sons of Diane Thompson underwent a severe special forces training accident that involved "an explosion, "during 1965, at a military base in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  This was said to have been the cause that left Diane Thompson ... the 1978 accuser of Cipolla ... to fend for herself as a single mother, in the era of food stamps, welfare checks, and federally funded HUD housing.

Responses to Engel's Assertions go as follows:

Concerning the claim of special forces training in the Carolinas, in 1965, a brief background goes as follows:
 
That Spartanburg South Carolina military base CLOSED IN 1946, one year after the end of WWII.  It was then official disbanded in 1947.  
 
It was called, Camp Croft.  There was no Vietnam-era training there.  The place was a tourist sight in 1965.  No guns are allowed to be fired anywhere near a tourist sight in the USA.

Even the 1950's special forces training center in Camp Mackall, in North Carolina, was NOT in operation in the 1960s.  Thus, you cannot say that Diane Thompson meant to say, Norther Carolina, instead of South Carolina.  Thus, be assured that Randy Engel's Special Forces Accident Segment was a deliberate lie, designed to make you "feel sorry" for Diane Thompson and hate Anthony Cipolla all the more.   
 
Below:  Look and see what LIARS Randy Engel & Diane Thompson have been, in their traumatizing the defamed heart disease patient, Anthony Cipolla, literally to death in 2016.           

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Now, concerning North Carolina's Camp Mackall, whoever this "second husband" of Diane Thompson was, he definitely did NOT do any special forces training there, either.  Thus, he did no special forces training in 1965 in either of the two Carolina states. 
 

To get to Vietnam, you needed to embark from California on the West Coast and NOT from the Carolinas on the East Coast.
 
Plus, you needed to train in a hot jungle environment, and North Carolina did not have that environment.  Meanwhile, South Carolina's Camp Croft had already been closed for 18 years, by the time 1965 arrived. 
 
Those two observations, alone, should have alerted the 2016 readers of the defamatory Randy Engel article that the contents of that article were fiction.  In as much, let us now adjourn to the famous Fort Bragg, also located in the Carolinas.  
 
A Randy Engel defender might come to say that Diane Thompson was mistakenly referring to Fort Bragg as the place of Vietnam special forces training, in Thompson's claim that her "second husband" was severely injured during special forces training.  
 
Well, if Fort Bragg were in California or Hawaii or Guam, the special forces claim in the Engel article might have had some legitimacy.  If Fort Bragg were situated in a heated jungle, then the defamatory Engel article of 2016 might have had an element of credibility to it.  
 
HOWEVER, the reality with Fort Bragg and Vietnam is that there was the 5th Special Forces stationed there and the 10th Special Forces Psychological Warfare unit there.  Both special forces units were stationed there, only for the purpose of paperwork and management.  Any physical training maneuvers which involved "explosions" were conducted elsewhere, in a heated jungle environment called Vietnam. 
 
Now, the 5th Special Forces was indeed established in 1961 and assigned to Fort Bragg.  HOWEVER, between 1964 and 1971 its special forces training bases were literally IN VIETNAM, to acclimate soldiers to the hot jungle environment.  Thus, there was no second husband of Diane Thompson involved in any 1965 special forces training in either of the two Carolina states, especially in Spartanburg where there were no military training exercises since 1945. 


Fort Bragg became the center of Psychological Warfare in 1952, and the 10th Special Forces Group was assigned to be stationed there, in the psychological warfare capacity.  Then, in 1962, JFK moved the embarkation point of 10th Special Forces to the West Coast, being that the West Coast was closer to Vietnam than was North Carolina.  
 
The important point here is that the 10th Special Forces was a cerebral military unit of psychological academics and mind games.  The 10th Special Forces was even involved in radio transmission academics, as well as electronics.  It was an Information Operations unit.  
 
Its training was the opposite of the violence seen in the stereotypical Chuck Norris movie.  The 10th Special Forces Unit was not trained to blow you up.  It was trained to take over your radio stations and to intercept enemy messages, as well as disabling enemy electronics.  It was trained to intercept your phone call, instead of blowing up the office where your phone was located.
 

This shows that Diane Thompson was NOT honestly mistaken, but rather, she was a deliberate liar in her harrowing special forces training tale which was nothing more fiction.  There was no second husband of Diane Thompson getting seriously injured in any 1965 special forces training "explosion" in North or South Carolina.  
 
This shows that Diane Thompson ... and and and Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" ... intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon heart patient, Anthony Cipolla, with the help of their asinine dupe, Mrs Randy Engel.
 
Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" manipulated the contents of the 2016 article, in order to drastically demonize an Anthony Cipolla she literally wanted off of Planet Earth 
 
I personally spoke with Randy Engel's good good New Jersey friend for many hours.  She wanted Cipolla completely disregarded, avoided, and entirely ignored.   She vehemently, in a paranoiac tone of voice, kept telling me to drop the Cipolla investigation.  
 
Well, if she were a woman of truth, then she would have invited me to continue investigating Cipolla, to prove without the shadow of a doubt that he was guilty of molestation.  It were as if that woman feared that numerous pieces of exculpatory evidence in favor of Cipolla would arise.  And exculpatory evidence kept rising like artifacts during an archeological excavation.
 
Cipolla was in too much pain to molest or hurt anyone in 2016
 
The huge issue concerning the outright paranoia of Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" is that, in 2016, Anthony Cipolla had painful and debilitating medical conditions which included heart surgery, a previous minor heart attack, and diabetic neuropathy.  I heard Cipolla in pain many times, over the phone.  And yes, it included the predictable back pain.  Yet, Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" saw Cipolla as a danger to humanity. 
 
In my private citizen's personal opinion, the "good good New Jersey friend" of Mrs Randy Engel wanted Cipolla dead, and she got what she wanted.
 
The Harrowing July Homework Fairy Tale ... in addition to the "Cassock in July" tale: 
 
Concerning the claim that Young Tucker was doing homework at a kitchen table on July 30th, 1978, a person set on defending Randy Engel's 2016 defamatory writing would respond, by claiming that Young Tucker was probably doing Summer School homework.  Well, that conjecture is very easy to disprove.  Observe:
 
According to the Pittsburgh Teachers' Union Contract of the late 1970s, there was to be no summer school occurring in the final week of July.  This was done, so that union teachers could get valid vacation time before the start of the "teachers' in-service days" which immediately occurred a few days before the start of the school year.  

Moreover, the start of the school year was scheduled to immediately follow Labor Day.  Thus, the Teachers' In-Service Days were scheduled for Late August.  
 
This is why the union contract made sure that there would be NO SUMMER SCHOOL in the last week of July.  In as much, it is 100% certain that the Young Tucker was NOT doing any summer school homework on July 30th, 1978, as Randy Engel claimed. 
 

Moreover, the 1978 accusing mother could have easily gotten a Restraining Order against Cipolla.  She could have simply called the police, if he did appear on her porch in a cassock, on July 30th.  But of course, the entire story can be written-off as a deliberate lie, because it was one big lie to have claimed that Tucker was doing homework during a time when there was no school.  

No one in the early 1970s youth groups ever accused Cipolla

If Anthony Cipolla were such a notorious child molester, then why did no one from any of his early 1970s youth groups ever accuse him of any wrongdoing?  People in those youth groups had 53 years to come forth and state their accusations.  
 
In fact, if Cipolla ever molested you, call me.  I'm actually polite when speaking, because you have to be even-keeled and properly mannered, in order to get residential & commercial construction work.  
 
I no longer am in government contract work which necessitated the lowest bid and a pile of paperwork, without first giving a sales pitch.  Speaking nicely to people is now required ... simply to win their trust.  Thus, I have had a lot of practice in the niceness mode of communication.  
 
BTW, if you are a stranger to the concept of "Niceness," it was coined by Mel Brooks & Buck Henry, for the NBC TV Get Smart comedy series.  Yes, Maxwell Smart was fighting for Niceness & the American Way, against KAOS agents.  And of course, this was a pun on CHAOS.
 
Even a confidentiality clause of decades past would have come forth during the 2002 media onslaught of Catholic bishop cover-ups, if and only if Cipolla were a serial molester of youth in the early 1970s.  But, no such non-disclosure agreements were reported among any of Cipolla's early '70s youth group members.  
 
There is zero indication that any member of those youth groups came forth and accused Cipolla of any physical wrongdoing in the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, etc.


MORE IMPORTANTLY, my former neighbor of many years, the late Attorney John Conte, had lined-up dozens of character witnesses for Anthony Cipolla, in the Tim Bendig lawsuit trial that Wuerl made sure would not occur.  
 
If that civil court trial had transpired, then Bendig would have been crushed and obliterated by the testimony of dozens of male youths stating under oath that Anthony Cipolla never tried any sexual exploits on them ... and that none of them ever saw Anthony Cipolla doing anything suspicious or obscene with Tim Bendig.  It would have been Case-Closed for all time.  Wuerl would have no longer had his scapegoat.
 
So think!!!!   Dozens of male youths were ready to take the stand as pro-Cipolla character witnesses and swear under oath that Cipolla did nothing intrusive to them.  
 
However, one of the witnesses was being coached by an assistant attorney, to say something on the stand that no one could prove to be true or false.  It had to do with some kind of a red blotch on Cipolla's arm or neck or wherever.   The witness was a nephew of Cipolla, and the nephew never had respect for Cipolla, ever since.  But, it was the attorney who deserved the disrespect.
 
You see, Tim Bendig's attorney brought that blotch mark into the conversation, in order to insinuate that Cipolla contracted some sort of sexual disease, thereby suggesting that Cipolla was an out-of-control animal who would go out of his way to have his way with Bendig.  
 
So, the assistant attorney of my former neighbor, John Conte, told Cipolla's nephew to say that the red mark was from a spider bite.  Now, how was Cipolla's nephew supposed to have known this?  It was stupid advice.
 
PLUS, both one of Diane Thompson's sons never offered to sit down with me and talk, in order to prove to me that they were telling the truth about Cipolla.  That is to say, I never got to cross-examine Frank & Tucker.  Well, if they had truth on their side ... and had no falsehoods to hid ... then they would have had no problem speaking with me.
 
All in all, I never had the opportunity to video-tape an interview of Frank and/or Tucker, for a body language expert to evaluate.  In fact, you would logically think that Frank & Tucker would be so outraged at me, for calling their mother a liar, that they would have demanded to sit down with me, do their talking and set the record straight.  But, they didn't.  It would plausibly seem to the reasonable person that they are hiding something ... something like false accusations.  Wouldn't you say so?  
 
12 Year Olds have been caught lying.  But, people didn't think so in the 1970s. 
 
The sole detective of the short-lived 1978 Cipolla investigation mentioned in his 2018 grand jury testimony why he believed the damning accusations against Cipolla, as were told by the then-twelve year old son of Diane Thompson, in 1978.

The former detective said that he only believed what the 12 year old boy said to him in 1978, because he was a 12 year old boy.  The detective of 1978 didn't think that any 12 year old child was capable of lying to a police officer.  
 
That belief was common amongst Americans in the late 1970s.  This is why the hoaxes of the 1980s, such as the McMartin Pre-School farce, was so easy to orchestrate. 


Of course, in subsequent years, court cases showed that 9, 10, 11, and 12 year old students most certainly do lie.  This means that you have to test any junior high school student's testimony for cracks & contradictions, just like anyone else's testimony.

None the less, concerning the 1978 Probable Cause Hearing which came after the issuing of a Summary Notice, the sole detective's 2018 grand jury testimony ... of the 1978 case ... as soon as it was made known to him that the Cipolla Case was going to be dismissed ... was reportedly this:

[I] didn’t recall seeing Father Cipolla, but I do recall there was – – approximately – – there was five men and it has been a while back. 

I don’t know if they were all attorneys or who they belonged to. But one of them approached me and told me that the mother doesn’t want to press charges and they - - to the effect - - they didn’t want to get the priest in any trouble or hurt the priest.  Something to that effect. 

And I said, ‘Well, what about the boy?’ And I didn’t get an answer. So I kind of asked again. I said, ‘What do we want to do with the boy? He is the one who is the victim here.’
 
And of course, the sole detective whose last name began with McG... only believed that Cipolla was guilty because Detective McG believed that a 12 year old eldest brother was incapable of lying to police.  Of course, the 1980s McMartin case proved that 9, 10, 11, and 12 year old children are very capable of telling ridiculous lies with a straight face.
 
(Note on Due Process:  When a judge would find probable cause for an indictment, he/she would do what was known as "issue process."  Then, and only then, does the person end up getting indicted and then arrested & arraigned.)  

In 1978, no one issued process on Anthony Cipolla.  And in 2026, after a deep-dive investigation which included searching America for those involved in the 1978 case, it turned out that Diane Thompson and her eldest son repeatedly lied in their "averments of fact."  Those lies were as bad as those told by the McMartin witnesses of 1983 to 1990.

The 1978 Pittsburgh detective automatically played jury, declaring Cipolla guilty, because Detective McG believed that 12 year old big brothers didn't lie.  Well, school teachers know that 12 year youths do lie.  
 
The detective should have simply  said, "But, we had an element of probable cause in the 1978 case which needed follow-up."  

The probable cause was the stethoscope, IF and ONLY IF there were no evidence of Cipolla occasionally sending medical supplies to the foreign mission with whom he was once associated.  And of course, his association with that mission was as a seminarian.  
 
BTW, the yearly Michigan trip of Cipolla was to the grounds of that religious order.  The purpose of that yearly trip was to inspire Catholic youth to aspire to the priesthood.

Anyway, the 2018 testimony of the sole detective of the 1978 case also said:

And I was kind of ignored, to be honest about it. And the case was dropped, thrown out, whatever you want to call it, and it was nothing that the police – – that we could do because the Magistrate went along with it and dumped the case.  So here we are today.

Randy Engel should have first studied Anatomy
 
Now, if Cipolla did molest Tucker, it was NOT the way Randy Engel said it was repeatedly done.  Such an action would have caused any nine year a lot of physical pain.  This is due to the Science of Anatomy.  And quite frankly, I do NOT want to get graphic here.

Once again, the 1978 detective did NOT test the youth's allegations for contradictions.  He immediately believed anything the youth said, simply because the youth was a youth and youths were immaculately honest people who were incapable of lying ... NOT.

If the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson were in the danger she later claimed she was ... at the hands of Cipolla in 1978 ... police would have had due cause to arrest multiple persons, including Cipolla.  Thus, she would NOT have had to have fled her apartment.  
 
The conjecture is that Diane Thompson failed to pay rent and faced eviction.  Cipolla wasn't out to get her.  All that Cipolla had to do was relocate and stay as far away from her as possible.
 
Her Lies about Yours Truly, shows that she IS a liar, per se 

This Diane Thompson also claimed that you could search the internet all day and not find any proof of my existence.  She simultaneously claimed that Cipolla was operating this site, under my name, while operating some kind of sex ring.  
 
Now, if you have money and you state about me what Thompson did ... and I learn of it ... I'm going to sue you with the intention of utterly destroying the sum total of your defamatory existence.  Your attorney can be the one giving you lessons on law and civil court, as well as the history of Italian vengeance.  I suffered too much in life than to die defamed.   
 
And of course, the attorneys with whom I consulted, to sue Diane Thompson for defamation, simply mentioned the word, "uncoverable."  This refers to the fact that suing her was not going to result in any cash award actually being obtained by the law firm.  Therefore, no lawyer was out there who was going to file a defamation lawsuit against someone who had no vast bank account.
 
Wuerl benefited by letting financially impoverished people commit defamation for him ... by committing defamation which benefited Wuerl.  Those people were surrogates doing his "bidding" for him.  
 
None the less, it has been ten years since Cipolla's violent death, and this site continues to be operated.  That, alone, is proof that I exist ... or else Cipolla's ghost is operating this site.  That would make this site haunted.  
 
Therefore, if you go to this site, and cups and saucers suddenly start flying around you, with kitchen drawers opening and closing at will, then this site is being operated by Cipolla's ghost.  If not, then you know Diane Thompson to be nothing but a liar.  
 
None the less, if you claim as true anything defamatory that the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson stated about me, get a lawyer.  And remember, I'm Italian.  So, do the math on what that means ... and go for it.

Was revealed to me

Now, something was revealed to me about Diane Thompson's mindset, during the days when she originally learned that I repeatedly caught her lying ... in the 2010s.  She was in utter traumatic distress, because she was in a position to loose a massive settlement, if the authorities of the Pittsburgh Diocese weren't either corrupt or utterly stupid.  

She WAS terrified of me and wanted me out of the picture.  She even doxed me, enabling some fanatic to find me and to violently take me out of the picture.

The revelation about Diane Thompson being terrified of me came from the mouth of someone in her camp, into my ears.  The Diane Thompson People were ... and probably still are ... really, really, REALLY stupid.  

Enter the Self-Righteous Randy Engel, judge of us all

The importance of the female writer named Randy Engel is that she used to be the one who edited Anthony Cipolla's Padre Pio Group periodical, called "Thorns & Roses," for consecutive years after Wuerl defrocked Cipolla on account of the St. Luke Institute's diagnosis of Clinical Depression & Suicidal Tendencies.  She knew all about the accusations against Cipolla, but dispelled them ... for years.  

As you read her 2016 text, you instantly see that Engel didn't know the first thing about the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.  This is because Engel's narration of a 1978 arrest and  arraignment which never happened in the first place was NOT the way defendants were processed in Pennsylvania.  That, alone, proves the 2016 Engel text to be  defamatory fiction. 

In addition, Wuerl hyper-publicized and misrepresented the Cipolla Case as a diversionary tactic which concealed from the public all of Wuerl's actual cover-ups of priests who actually did get convicted in criminal courts of law ... or who should have been convicted.

Wuerl obstructed justice, and he used the hyped-up version of the Cipolla case in the obstruction thereof.   But, in 2018, all came tumbling down for Donald Wuerl.  He was found to be the opposite of the super-hero he was made-out to be.

In addition, a third person did contact Ann Rodgers-Melnick, reporting a priest cover-up of Donald Wuerl.  But of course, she ignored that third person.

Once again, in my private citizen's personal opinion of a public figure ... as is protected under NY Times v Sullivan (1964) ...  Donald William Wuerl was the opposite of St Francis of Assisi, St Francis Xavier, St Francis de Sales and every other St. Francis in the Catholic Church's list of saints.  That list is called, the Roman Martyrology.  Incidentally, martyr means "witness."

Concerning Randy Engel's age, she began journalism shortly after her college  graduation which occurred in 1961.  Thus, one can assume that Randy was born somewhere in the vicinity of 1940 or so.  Therefore, she was in her 70s in 2016.  Incidentally, Randy was a grad of the State University of New York at Cortland; SUNY Cortland.  

I personally knew Randy.  In fact, she, Mike Ference, and I were simultaneously interviewed on some type of internet radio talk show thing, in the early 2010s.  

One of the two interviewers turned out to be my long lost cousin ... literally.  He was a second-cousin raised somewhere near the Penn State campus.  His mom ... a woman I did meet ... had a restaurant near the Nittany Lion stadium.  Yes, it was a super coincidence.

Cipolla died the same year as the Engel Text ... from a heart attack
 
In 2016, Randy Engel seemed to have seen herself as Cipolla's executioner, in letting him endure untold emotional distress which lead to his 2016 death.  That was sick and twisted of her. 

Simply because a person speaks or writes with confidence, in an assured tone (or rhythm), it doesn't mean that the person is telling the truth.  The 1980s McMartin Case, alone, proved this to be so.  
 
In addition, Diane Thompson later claimed that Cipolla's followers smashed all her windows and slit all her car tires, in the Summer of 1978.  Well, this occurred BEFORE Cipolla was put in charge of the already-existent Padre Pio prayer group which was founded in the 1960s.  He had no Padre Pio Prayer Group followers as of yet.  This means that he didn't have a group of followers to go out and smash windows for him.
 
Of course, Randy Engel water-downed that particular falsehood in 2016, by claiming that only one window was vandalized.  Well, Randy Engel must have lived a sheltered life.  When people commit retaliation, they don't waste their time smashing only one window.  They go for the Kill.  The Randy Engel of 2016 had no wisdom ... or common sense. 
 
Of course, the big lie in this situation is that Randy Engel suggested that Diane Thompson was being intimidated into "dropping charges" against Cipolla which is something is no civilian in any jurisdiction in the USA is capable of doing.  Only a judge ... including a magistrate ... or a DA ... including a solicitor ... is capable of dismissing a criminal case.
 
The concept of the abbreviated expression, "do you want to file charges" literally means "do you want to file a private criminal complaint which will first be reviewed by the DA's office, and IF the DA's office finds no cause to be the one who actually files the charges, then a probable cause hearing will be conducted at a local magistrate's office, to see if the magistrate sees cause to "issue process."
 
Moreover, today, if a DA's office and a local magistrate decline to indict a person accused of a crime in a private citizen 's complaint, the same private citizen can then filed a civil action in United States district court to get injunction ordering the local DA to file criminal charges.  If the federal district judge doesn't grant the injunction, then the accused person goes about his/her life, even to the point of suing the private citizen who defamed the accused person.
 
This all means that, once a person is indicted, arrested, and arraigned no amount of vandalizing anything will result in a private citizen dropping criminal charges, because only a DA's office or judge can dismiss a criminal case. 
 
Senior Citizen Church Goers are NOT notorious window smashers 
 
By the way,  the windows of that single mom's apartment were NOT smashed at all, and her car tires were NOT slit, either.  After all, the majority of Padre Pio Group members were either retired or disabled, meaning that they didn't have the energy to commit felonies, in the first place.  
 
Of course, Cipolla was not yet in charge of any Padre Pio Group that would have members go out and start smashing windows, during the hours between them cashing their social security checks, seeing their doctors for arthritic medical conditions, and playing checkers at the local senior citizen's hall.  Padre Pio Prayer Group members were NOT the Hell's Angels, to say the least.
 
Cipolla NEVER had to register as a sex offender ...
 
... and TWO DA offices said that there was neither evidence nor corroborating witnesses in Tim Bendig's accusations.  And the Vatican never tried Cipolla on any sex abuse accusation made by Tim Bendig.
 It's too bad that the "good good New Jersey friend" of Randy Engel did not find the psychiatrist she needed, because she was nuts.  She was so bad that her wardrobe closet needed a straight-jacket in it.  She was frantically OBSESSED with Cipolla.  So, she got Randy Engel to write the 2016 article which was wall-to-wall lies, as has already been illustrated ... even in this post.
 
BTW, concerning scaring people to death, there literally is a criminal offense called Homicide by Fright.  But, that is for sudden shock events.  Those events which cause days of continued emotional trauma and which result in a heart attack need to be prosecuted, too.  
 
Cipolla was never arrested.  Thus, Cipolla was never convicted of any sex offense.  This means that Cipolla was never required to register anywhere as a sex offender.  
 
He was only removed from priesthood ministry for DEPRESSION & SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.  Thus, it was never a crime for Cipolla to apply for a job as a youth group counselor or camp counselor.  
 
It was only a civil offense, actionable in civil court, for him to have posed as a priest in good standing and to apply for a job as a chaplain.  But, it required a civil court order to have him removed from anywhere he was hired as chaplain.  Cipolla was even able to legally apply for a job as a layman catechism teacher or a layman news reporter, etc. 
 
Wuerl was never man enough to stand in front of a camera and emphatically state this, so as to prevent confusion and false beliefs.  Rather, Wuerl orchestrated the false light beliefs, purposely allowing the mistaken beliefs and confusion to set like cement.
 
Concerning Tim Bendig, from personal one-on-one experience, I discovered that Bendig really was a wall-to-wall liar.  What he did with his relatively hefty settlement money also proved him to be a liar.  There's more evidence of Bendig having been nothing more than a con artist.  But, for now, remember that he had me fooled ... until he kept on talking and told me four lies in a row.  
 
Meanwhile, as Tim Bendig was telling me his third lie in a row, in the silence of my mind, I literally thought, "Wow.  Cipolla is really innocent, after all."  This is at least the case concerning the very rigged Bendig Case.  
 
And again, as I stated eight, ten, or twelve times previously, the famous & infamous 1993 Vatican Rehearing had nothing to do with Bendig's accusations against Cipolla.  It had to do with answering the following question:
 
Did Wuerl have the right to dismiss Cipolla from the clerical state, solely on account of a diagnosis of Clinical Depression & Suicidal Tendencies, given to Cipolla by the St Luke Institute in Maryland?

July 29, 2026

Part 2: Anthony Cipolla was Neither indicted Nor arrested in 1978 or ever

This is near the Diocese of Pittsburgh's downtown administrative office, and it looks like a scene in an End of the World movie ... a glimpse into the Apocalypse.   
 
The Great Apostasy was first introduced to the believers of Jesus the Nazarene by the heroic martyr, Paul of Tarsus.  It was directly mentioned by Paul in his writings to the Thessalonians.  It's specifically mentioned in the 2nd letter of Paul to the Thessalonians, Chapter 2, Verse 3.
 
Now, this Great Apostasy was prophesied to be the era of time when the bishops, themselves, become OFFENDERS OF THE FAITH, instead of defenders of the Faith.  At this point in time, read the 21st Century signs of the times and do the math.
 
 
We now adjourn to the 1990s, when there was a ploy to make one bishop the Voice of the Catholic Church in America.  And of course, the spokesman of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, all 6'4" or so of him, said that that one bishop should be Donald Wuerl.
 
Yes, in the 1990s and the Turn of the Millennium Donald Wuerl was being advertised as the holiest of men in his generation.  Others in Pittsburgh knew that the truth was opposite of what Wuerl's Propaganda Team was telling Americans.
 
Now, Pittsburgh had the reputation of a land of near-illiterate thugs who know nothing of modernization.  Well, the reality is that Pittsburgh was declared the most livable city in America, in 1985 and in specific years of the early 21st Century.  
 
In fact, in the 1990s, there were approximately 42,000 millionaires living in the "Pittsburgh Vicinity."  Moreover, there was a time when there were more millionaires in Pittsburgh than in New York City's five boroughs, due to the profits of the steel industry.  
 
And of course, in the modernization of humanity, Pittsburgh has had many firsts, including the first robotics institute in the world.  
 In fact, the Pittsburgh which is stereotyped as a land of illiterates has had five Pulitzer Prize winners.  In fact, the Univ of Pittsburgh manages one of the most prestigious yearly literature awards in the United States.  

Here' s a quick modern history lesson:  Due to its large steel industry, it was in the 1890s when Pittsburgh was called "Hell, with the lid off."  It was equally said that "six months in Pittsburgh is grounds for suicide."  Well, a hundred years later, in the 1990s, things in Pittsburgh started to return to a similar state of malaise, approaching a sense of despair, mingled with outrage, step by step.

When the blatantly narcissistic Donald Wuerl was in power & influence ... being the stereotypical Peter Pan look-alike that he was ... no one was allowed to admonish or object or report grievances against him without consequences.  Living in Pittsburgh as a Catholic felt like being on the set of an end of the world movie.  

You couldn't say a thing about Wuerl, except for speaking idolatrous worship of him, or else someone such as Fr Ron Lengwin would come crashing down on you, like the Nazi SS ... like Adolph's 1925 Schutzstaffel.  Lengwin was one of Wuerl's rottweilers, even though he came off as the humble and boring shoe shine boy ... like Underdog ... when behind a radio studio microphone or in front of a TV camera.  However, when off the air, a model of charitable discourse he was not.

Ironically, Wuerl IS German in ethnicity, and he was made cardinal by the Hitler Youth Pope, otherwise known as the Nazi Pope, Joseph Ratzinger.  Only avowed liars would deny that Ratzinger's papacy was a display of corruption enjoyed by many cardinals, as if the cardinals built and owned the Church, as opposed to them inheriting it with responsibility attached to the inheriting thereof.  

As a reminder, it was Ratzinger's own butler, Paolo Gabriele, who handed over to Italian journalist, Gianluigi Nuzzi, incriminating evidence against the Vatican in general.  Thus, Ratzinger's papacy was a sick joke.  And of course, Ratzinger elevating Wuerl to the College of Cardinals was one of the sickest jokes, as the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest Report illustrated.


There was a deep-dive investigation which sought to identify the degree of corruption in the modern church hierarchy.  It was done by Cardinal Julian Herranz.  Herranz literally sent to Ratzinger the blueprints to curb hierarchical church corruption.  However, it was said to have been the motivating factor for Benedict XVI resigning, because he didn't have the strength or the courage to clean house.


In re: Anthony Cipolla, 1993
 
During the time when the Cipolla Rehearing occurred ... in 1993 ... the Vatican was already deeply corrupt with Good Ole Boy Cronyism.  That cronyism reached into the ranks of the Pittsburgh media.
 
TESTIMONY of grifters supported by Wuerl: Easy to IMPEACH 

There is/was A LOT of exculpatory evidence in the Anthony Cipolla Case which includes proof that the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson ... along with her eldest son ... outright lied  ... and repeatedly lied.  Before all else, you need to learn the following things.





More specifically, Cipolla was served with a Summary Notice to appear at a Probable Cause Hearing, on August 28, 1978.  Yet the 1978 journalist described the Summary Notice as an indictment.  The incompetent journalist of 1978 described it as an arrest.  
 
No, the scheduled August 28th hearing was to see if there were due cause to file an indictment against Cipolla, in the first place.  The hearing was to see if he was going to be arrested.  No arrest transpired.  

We adjourn to the 1978 Cipolla Case which ever-so-coincidentally occurred almost exactly after Diane Thompson asked Anthony Cipolla to get his pastor to pay Diane Thompson's monthly apartment rent, followed by the pastor saying to Cipolla that the parish wasn't a charity organization and couldn't afford to pay Diane Thompson's rent.

Now, it's important to note that, in the late 1970s, a white single mother faced significant danger when living in the HUD welfare projects.  So, it would be expected to find a white single welfare mother vehemently trying to avoid living in the projects.  So, such women would do what they could to get charity for living in other venues of housing.  HUD project housing in the late 1970s was NOT safe housing:

                           

Below is a timeline consensus, from AI

In review, in order to prevent air-headed misunderstanding:  The 1978 Cipolla Case lasted 34 days, and there was NO ARREST.  There was only a scheduled PROBABLE CAUSE HEARING, and such hearings were designed to discern if whether or not there were cause to file charges in the first place.  

The August 1978 hearing was cancelled an hour or so before it started, by Diane Thompson, herself.  Plus, there were NOT two detectives assigned to the case.  There was only one.

The 34 day time span is pivotal to note, because, in 1978, it took approximately 52 days for the results of a seminal fluid test to be issued by any lab.  There was NO POSITIVE seminal fluid evidence involved in 1978 Cipolla case.  
 
Diane Thompson told author, Randy Engel, that there was.  No, there wasn't.  There was no seminal fluid found on Tucker Thompson's clothing or body at all, according to the 2018 Grand Jury Report.  Diane Thompson deliberately LIED, as usual.  I cited a number Diane Thompson's easily provable lies, and there is a search box at the top right-hand of this page.
  
 

Concerning Diane Thompson's false claim about semen in 1978:

In as much, Diane Thompson lied ... yet again.  Randy Engel was stupid enough to have believed her ... yet again.  There was no seminal fluid report in the 1978 Cipolla Case, and there was none in the 1989 Tim Bendig Case, concerning a Tim Bendig who was repeatedly accused of being a lying con artist throughout the years.



And remember, Cipolla was NEVER indicted for any type of molestation in any court, ever.  This means that he was NEVER arrested.  In fact, he was NOT tried at the Vatican for any of Tim Bendig's accusations which two District Attorney offices found to have ZERO corroborating witnesses and ZERO physical evidence.

I already explained how the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure operated, in this type of case.  I even mentioned where, in Pittsburgh, a recently arrested defendant got arraigned, in 1978.  
 
Randy Engel was apparently too lazy to learn the introductory basics of the PA Rules of Criminal Procedure, making her 2016 article a sick joke.  Moreover, if you believed the contents of that article, then you are a moron in law, without doubt.  In fact, if you did believe the contents of Engel's article as undeniable fact, then stay away from people selling Florida swamp land real estate.  

Quick Review on 1993 Vatican Rehearing   

The Vatican case was based on Wuerl dismissing Cipolla from ministry, because Wuerl received From St Luke's Institute, in Maryland, a diagnosis of Depression & Suicidal Tendencies for Cipolla.  Ron Lengwin, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's Ann Rodgers-Melnick, and Donald Wuerl dedicated their time deceiving America into thinking that the Vatican case dealt with molestation, when it did not.  

Well, another professional institute diagnosed Cipolla as being mentally healthy, during the same time span.  And of course, Cipolla had to pay the bill out of his pocket.  None the less, Wuerl called the favorable diagnosis "scantily" and rejected it.  Wuerl let humanity be deceived that the Vatican Case involved Bendig's accusations against Cipolla.  It had nothing to do with that.


The other media reports, even those from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, were filled with SLEIGHT-OF-HAND semantic twists that presented the Cipolla case in a False Light.  I've already covered that, too.  But, I did so before the emergence of the friendly availability of the vast AI library.  
 
In review of the Research of the Cipolla Case 
 
For the record, I was NEITHER a follower NOR a fan NOR an admirer of the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla.  But, I did meet admirers of him.  They were fine.  Plus, I was paid ZERO dollars and ZERO cents, for all of the research that I did ... which I did, at my own expense.  Thus, I had and I have no conflict of interest in this case.

It's simply that this case, beginning with a box of documents, fell into my hands.  Being that the documentary evidence contradicted all that was claimed by the Wuerl People and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, I automatically had the task of doing extracurricular homework on the case ... at my own uncompensated expense.  After all, when defamation occurs, restitution is required through whoever finds the exculpatory evidence which defends the accused. 
 
Now remember, one day in the 2010s, I received a phone call, where the voice on the other side said, "We're going to meet Anthony Cipolla today."  My immediate response was, "Why do you want to waste your time on this case?"  I later asked, "What makes you think he's innocent?"  
 
The bottom line is that I was not a brain-washed follower ... of anybody, including Cipolla.  Yet, until the 2010s, I trustingly believed all of the defamatory reports about Cipolla published by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  However, I never read the Post Gazette anymore.  I ignore it as absolutely worthless.