A lawyer the Catholic Church is paying to represent a group of people named in the Maryland attorney general’s report into clergy sexual abuse previously urged government investigators to look into the church’s past.
Gregg Bernstein, who was Baltimore state’s attorney from 2010 until 2014, met with a group of Catholic abuse victims in 2017 in his downtown office to discuss whether he could help push Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office to investigate the Archdiocese of Baltimore, according to interviews with meeting attendees and emails.
“I have reviewed all the materials you have provided me, including the grand jury reports, and I have forwarded the information to my contact at the Attorney General’s Office who I mentioned has expressed interest in this matter,” Bernstein wrote in an email to survivors a week later, bringing them up to speed on his progress. “I will let you know when I hear back from her.”
