This is a supplement to a previous post addressing the fact that Diane Thompson BLATANTLY LIED when claiming to have been "pressured" by D.A. Bob Colville into dropping criminal charges in 1978 ... concerning a Father Anthony Cipolla who never had any charges filed against him, in the first place.
The scene she narrated was contrary to standard procedural law, from A to Z, which included her claim that there was scheduled for Cipolla a post-arrest hearing at ... Police Station #9. For those of you under-educated, the police are part of the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of government. Only the judicial branch is in charge of all courtroom procedure and hearings. Period.
The accompanying outrage in the Cipolla Case was that Donald Wuerl and his lawyers ... as well as Wuerl's de facto minister of propaganda ... neglected to let Americans know that the media's report on the Cipolla Case was filled with falsehoods. And of course, I was one of those deceived Americans, until a box of documents was literally placed in front of me, for the long-term viewing and studying thereof.
As a result, I learned from experience ... as well as from detailed research ... to NOT trust anything produced by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Period.
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Above: The newspaper whose subscriber base was 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. For people who think that they are reasonably familiar with the Anthony Cipolla Case, here is your Instant Reality Check:
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In the 2018 grand jury testimony of a former detective assigned to the 1978 Cipolla Case, he admitted that he had absolutely ZERO EVIDENCE against Anthony Cipolla
For the record, youths ... including those 12 years of age ... have been caught lying to the police, to their teachers, to counselors, and to whoever else was in authority. Such youths were occasionally found to have been coached by a parent or guardian in their testimonies.
None the less, you can now reasonably ascertain that Diane Thompson LIED when claiming that there was DNA evidence against Cipolla in the Summer of 1978. There was NO INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE. Thus, there would be no indictment. There never was an arrest against Cipolla, and it had nothing to do with corruption. Period.
Below are a couple excerpts of the "Drop-the-Charges" post presently found in the September 2026 archives of this Wuerl-of-Hurt site. The need for this comes from the observation that Americans, on average, know very little about American legal procedure.
Now remember. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette assured us that 1978 had a harrowing scene attached to it, where the evil evil Bob Colville stood over Diane Thompson like the imposing shadow of Count Dracula, forcing her to sign a sheet of paper she couldn't see, because she had tears in her eyes. And then, she miraculously signs the paper she could not see, upon which the guilty guilty Anthony Cipolla is forever free.
The reality is that the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette forever sticks to its 1995 lies, while Diane Thompson forever lies. She had 250,000 motives in her defamatory story telling. Yes, she cashed-in significantly on her very non-factual story telling, showing us how low in intelligence or how low in honesty were those at the decision-making offices of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The details of the blatant falsehoods are at this site, and this site has always been free-for-the-reading. No entrance fee thus far.
Meanwhile, Wuerl had the motive of making Cipolla his scapegoat, by which the horrifying Cipolla Tale was a smokescreen & diversionary tactic behind which Wuerl hid from public view the undisputed abusive priests of his diocese.
The more the Post-Gazette demonized Anthony Cipolla, the more the real molester priests got comfortably away from the spotlight, with the vast majority of the Public being left in the dark. This technique even made those priests who were indicted and convicted forgotten by the public, to the point where the Post-Gazette was acting as if there were no appreciable number of sexually abusive priests under Wuerl's watch.
The Public was finally taken out of the Darkness of Wuerl and the Arrogance of the pro-Wuerl Post-Gazette, in 2018. The bishop whom the Post-Gazette called the Model of Zero Tolerance was extending a lot of tolerance to Wolk, Zula, Pucci, Zirwas, Huff, Burchianti, and Hoehl, as well as Paone, O'Malloy, Wellinger, and Brother Bernard Hartman who taught at North Catholic, from 1986 to 1997, and also from 1961 to 1979.
In addition, Wuerl was very tolerant toward Father Krawczyk after he was found guilty of manslaughter.
A quote from the original post ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
"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."
As far as goes Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Massachusetts, their criminal complaints begin with "the Commonwealth of ..."
All in all, 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. Diane Thompson did NOT have this power, in 1978."
"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 the rules of criminal procedure and Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville." Any Civil Court matter involving Cipolla would have involved paperwork done at the Prothonotary Office."
Another Important Excerpt ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
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. 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."
"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.
The shows that no one can say, without lying, that Diane Thompson was actually signing a withdrawal of her July 1978 Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint. This is because a person did NOT sign withdrawal papers in a DA's office in 1978. A person went to the Clerk of Court's Office and did all the withdrawal paperwork there.
Let us continue:
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 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 Anthony Cipolla Case which only lasted for 35 days. This is because it took an average of 52 days for DNA testing to produce results, in 1978.
The Cipolla Case only lasted from July 25 to August 28th, 1978. Meanwhile, 52 days after July 25th is/was September 15th. Thus, even if there had been DNA testing 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, on August 28th ... or even to the DA's office prior to August 28th.
Plus, there was no mention of any presence of 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 nine-year-old 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 Tucker, on July 25th, 1978. Period.
The supportive facts of a flagrantly misrepresented case
Always remember that 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.
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." That professional medical assessment, alone, exonerates Cipolla, at least in the case of the nine-year-old Tucker.
1] Concerning Diane Thompson's 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.
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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. Tucker said it happened only twice, in all the time narrated by Randy Engel in her defamatory 2016 article which suggested that Cipolla imposed himself on the young Tucker for four, seven, or fourteen consecutive months. Even at that, Tucker claimed that he was molested only TWICE by Cipolla ... ever; once near the July 4th holiday season and once on September 25, 1978, shortly after Diane Thompson's request for apartment rent money from & through 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. Also in the late 1970s, there was a priest shortage. In fact, the common American assumption was that interest in Catholicism would dwindle down to virtually nothing by the Year 2000 or maybe 2010.  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. Plus, castle interiors were lined with artistic tapestries. They were basically a layer of insulation, literally. And let us not forget about the Italian Renaissance's contribution to the world of art. European museums surely haven't. Include mosaic art in the Catholic World, also. 2c] Concerning the July 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. Randy 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. Moreover, she ALLEGEDLY sought to be spared of the destiny of being a single white mom living in the projects, under a HUD voucher. Concerning Diane Thompson asking Cipolla to get his pastor to have the St Vincent de Paul Society pay her monthly apartment rent, below is a very important note: Keep in mind that 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, after a 60 to 90 day eviction process. 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 have gotten 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. Reality Check on Randy Engel's Absence of Credibility Remember, this was/is the Randy Engel who confidently claimed: 1] that a 1965 special forces training accident occurred on a South Carolina military base that had completely closed-down & ceased operations in 1947 ... eighteen years prior. This is the same Randy Engel who claimed: 2] that preliminary hearings, in 1978, were held at "Police Station Number 9."   This is also the Randy Engel who claimed: 3] that Diane Thompson had the authority to "drop the charges" in 1978, 4] that Cipolla was arrested by detectives name Nehouser & Fogle, 5] that DNA lab testing took a few days at Allegheny General Hospital, when all such testing took 49 to 63 days at an NIH lab ... ... 6] and that Frank Labiaux committed vandalism upon a Protestant church in 1977, when the infamous double vandalism ... which occurred on two different nights and which was committed against a black Methodist church ... was reported in a major newspaper as having been done by older delinquents much later, in November of 1978. In fact, it is surmised that Diane Thompson purposely stole that November 1978 news report and put Frank's face on it, to deceive common-sensed researchers into believing that Frank's vandalism story was real ... and was backed-up by the media. Well, in this case, the media archive proved that Diane Thompson ... AND FRANK LABIAUX ... lied. Oh, and let us not forget Randy Engel claiming: 7] that Cipolla was wearing a cassock in the middle of summer, while harassing Diane Thompson into "dropping the charges" that [A] were NEVER FILED, in the first place, so done in an American jurisdiction where [B] no civilian has the power to "drop the charges" unilaterally, in any type of criminal case. Also keep in mind: 8] that, during the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest ... when archive files could easily be accessed by a PA constable with a search warrant ... and when previously hidden accusers could come forth and be heard on record ... there were ZERO hidden files on Cipolla found and/or presented, and there were ZERO new faces who came forth to accuse Cipolla as having molested them in the past. Plus, it's equally important to keep in mind: 9] that a detective of the 1978 Cipolla Case testified in 2018 that the only reason why he believed everything Frank Labiaux told him in 1978 was because he believed that no 12-year-old youth would ever lie to a police officer. In as much:    Next comes a response to Warren Bud Broz commenting on the moment four men in suits showed-up near the August 28th, 1978, courtroom of Judge Laffey. Broz said, "I knew the fix was in." If Broz were so sure that 12-yr-old Frank Labiaux was telling the truth about Cipolla, then why was Broz incapable of producing evidence and then composing a Police Affidavit that would have gotten get Cipolla indicted with a judge's warrant long before the need of an August 28th Probable Cause Hearing arrived on the calendar? Was it because Broz was lazy? Was it because Broz was incompetent? Was Broz already burnt-out in his police work? Or is it that there wasn't any evidence to support Labiaux's claims? One more thing: The fact the Broz did NOT recognize those four suited men in the August 28th hallway shows that none of them were from the D.A.'s department. Thus, the concept of the DA bullying Diane Thompson into submission was a liar's theatrics. Those four unidentified men had to have come from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and you can be assured that at least one of them was empowered to handover bail money ASAP, as well as being there to plead for a night court arraignment, if circumstances got to that point. You can think of them as the Just-in-case Men, and you can regard the bail money manager as the Extractor. Also keep in mind that the July 25th Offense/Incident Report was NOT a Police Report and it was NOT a Police Affidavit. It simply showed how weak the case against Cipolla was, in there having been no physical harm or intrusion done to a Tucker Thompson who claimed that he was molested for no more than two times, in all that time he knew Cipolla. And there was not the burden of proof requirement met in Frank Labiaux's accusations, to ensue a warrant for Cipolla's arrest. And as far as goes Tim Bendig, he is a repeatedly ALLEGED LIAR. I personally witnessed his lying, myself. Even his baseline accusation against Cipolla erased his credibility. This is because Cipolla was not stationed at St Canice after December 1983, meaning that he wasn't there, in Knoxville, to molest Bendig, in 1984, 1985, or 1986. Plus, my former neighbor, John Conte, along with his law firm, lined-up dozens of character witnesses for Cipolla, concerning the 1993 Bendig lawsuit trial which never happened, due to an out-of-court settlement which involves money that Bendig quickly squandered. Some of those character witnesses were taken to Michigan, too. Each one of them said that Cipolla did nothing to them. They also said that they saw no monkey business being performed by Cipolla on anyone. By the way, Diane Thompson LIED YET AGAIN, when she claimed that she had to pay a $45 entrance fee, for Frank to go to Michigan and visit the P.I.M.E grounds there. In reality, it was all for free, because its purpose was to inspire the desire of youths to pursue a priesthood vocation. Those were literally Priest Recruiting Weekends. This post is basically an introductory tutorial, being that Americans know very little about American law. This includes people out there, such as Randy Engel, who present themselves as experts in legal procedure, when they are babbling buffoons who don't know the first thing about it. The original article which inspired this tutorial can be found by clicking here: |
