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Giuliani Partners LLC is in default on a $30,000 debt that has since ballooned to nearly twice that amount.

John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesA $30,000 phone bill Rudy Giuliani’s former consulting firm has ignored for the past two-and-a-half years has ballooned to nearly twice that size—and the former tough-on-crime federal prosecutor’s flagship post-mayoral venture is now in default.A $57,655 judgment was entered Friday in New York State Supreme Court against Giuliani Partners LLC after it “failed and refused to pay” any of its invoices to Georgia VOIP...

Brother Robert Ryan (inset), shown in the 1960s. He died in 2017 at 83. A recently filed lawsuit says he sexually abused students decades ago at Marist High School on the Far Southwest Side, where he was an assistant principal for part of the 1970s, and at other schools run by the Marist Brothers religious order to which he belonged. Anthony Vazquez / Sun-Times, provided After Brother Robert Ryan died in 2017, a relative posted an online tribute, calling him “the favorite uncle” who “live...

New Diocese list of abusers includes 16 former North Fork priests St. Agnes Cathedral, the seat of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A recent bankruptcy court filing by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre sheds new light on the scope of sexual abuse by clergy who served on the North Fork, but critics say they believe an attached list of abusers omits the names of dozens more perpetrators.  The April 15 filing documents...