NFL chief calls Saints ‘great corporate citizens’ amid church abuse scandal
Roger Goodell speaks as emails detail how team’s owner helped to spin coverage of clergy sexual abuse scandalNFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the New Orleans Saints “are great corporate citizens” despite revelations in unearthed emails detailing how the football team’s owner and other top executives coordinated with the city’s Roman Catholic archdiocese in a campaign to soften media coverage of a decades-old clergy-abuse scandal engulfing the church.Saints owner Gayle Benson and other key lieutenants “are very involved in this community, and they are great corporate citizens”, Goodell said after news broke about the team’s decision to help the New Orleans archdiocese’s messaging about a scandal that has prompted police to open a child sex-trafficking investigation into the church. Continue reading...
Roger Goodell speaks as emails detail how team’s owner helped to spin coverage of clergy sexual abuse scandal
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the New Orleans Saints “are great corporate citizens” despite revelations in unearthed emails detailing how the football team’s owner and other top executives coordinated with the city’s Roman Catholic archdiocese in a campaign to soften media coverage of a decades-old clergy-abuse scandal engulfing the church.
Saints owner Gayle Benson and other key lieutenants “are very involved in this community, and they are great corporate citizens”, Goodell said after news broke about the team’s decision to help the New Orleans archdiocese’s messaging about a scandal that has prompted police to open a child sex-trafficking investigation into the church. Continue reading...