The Real History of Covenant House: GroupWatch Files Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit GroupWatch If you live in dread of a "right-wing coup," you'll want to read all about the recent history of right-wing subversion of democracy in the GroupWatch files, now available at the website of Public Information Research, http://www.pir.org the home of NameBase Online. This sample file covers Covenant House, currently operating in Guatemala, Honduras, and other parts of Central America as a human rights and children's rights organization. Here's where they came from... The GroupWatch files were compiled by the Interhemispheric Resource Center. IRC discontinued the project due to lack of funding, and in 1993 sent these files to PIR and others. At that time, 29 of them were selected for indexing in NameBase. In 1998, PIR requested permission to post all of the files on the web. With over 5,000 names in them, these files reveal an important aspect of U.S. history in the 1980s, and help us understand how we got here today. See the end of this report for a complete list of Groupwatch files. GroupWatch files are available at http://www.pir.org/gw/ GroupWatch was compiled by the Interhemispheric Resource Center, Box 4506, Albuquerque, NM 87196. http://www.zianet.com/irc1/ Group: Covenant House File Name: covenant.txt Last Updated: 4/91 http://www.pir.org/gw/covenant.txt Principals: Father Bruce Ritter, founder and until Feb 27, 1990 president.(1,3) On February 7, 1990 Frank J. Macchiarola was named acting president by the board of directors.(3) On February 27, 1990 Macchiarola was forced out as acting president and replaced by Covenant House then-ceo James Harnett.(6,7,8) Sister Mary Rose McGeady became president in July 1990.(31)Chairman of the board of directors in 1990 is Ralph A. Pfeiffer, Jr.(7) Until March 1990 Edmund J. Burns was counsel for Covenant House.(9) Members of the board of directors in 1991 are: John R. Boag, chairman; William G. Pecau, Esq., vice chairman, partner at Pennie & Edmonds; Alpha Alexander, director of health promotion and sports for the YMCA of the USA; Fr. Juniper Alwell, OFM, vicar provincial of the Order of Friars Minor; Paul Beatty, president of FM Business Publications; Thelma Dye-Holmes, PhD, director of clinical services for Northside Center for Child Development; Bob Feduniak, managing director of Morgan Stanley; Thomas Galvin, senior vice president of Consolidated Edison; Fr. Neil Mahoney, pastor at St. Patrick's Pro Cathedral; Linda Marcelli, resident vice president of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith; Frank Schaffer, chief operating officer of Doremus & Co; Bob Swanton, president of Executive Dimensions; and Stephen Zemo, president Stephen Zemo Real Estate and Development.(34) Members of the board of directors in 1987 were: Robert C. Macauley, chairman, president and ceo of Virginia Fibre Company; Denis P. Coleman, managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co; Sr. Eloise Emm, superior general of the Sisters of Saint Francis; James T. Kennedy, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University; Ellen Levine, vice president and editor-in-chief of Woman's Day magazine; Frank Macchiarola, director of the Academy of Political Science; James J. Maguire; James K. Makrianes, president of Haley Associates; Fr. Conall McHugh, minister provincial of Province House, Moroccan Martyrs Friary; Raymond J. Petersen, executive vice president of Hearst Magazines; Ralph A. Pfeiffer Jr, chairman of the board (retired) of IBM World Trade; Donna A. Santarsiero, executive director of the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service; Richard J. Schmeelk, senior executive director of Salomon Brothers, Inc.; William E. Simon, chairman and ceo of Wesray Corporation; Mark Stroock, senior vice president of Young & Rubicam, Inc.; Selwyn I. Taubman, vice president, treasurer of Ziff Corporation; Anthony P. Terracciano, president and ceo of Mellon Bank Corporation; and Clarence N. Wood, vice president/external affairs of the National Urban League, Inc.(1) J. Peter Grace, president of W.R. Grace and Company served on the board of directors of Covenant House. He was recruited to the board along with William Simon by Robert Macauley, founder of AmeriCares.(35) Executive directors of branches of Covenant House in 1987 were: Ron Williams--New York; Patrick Atkinson--Casa Alianza, Antigua, Guatemala; Mary McConville--Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Malcolm Host--Houston, Texas; Nancy Matthews--Fort Lauderdale, Florida; James Kelly--New Orleans, Louisiana; and Patricia Connors, director of NINELINE, New York, NY.(1) Stephen Torkelsen was planning to open a Covenant House in Anchorage, Alaska in 1988.(1) Category: Service, religious Background: Covenant House is a New York-based organization for teenage runaways founded by Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter in 1968.(3) Ritter began the organization to serve "streetwise" youths who could not obtain assistance from New York social service agencies. In 1977 Ritter and his cause caught the attention of business magnate and founder of AmeriCares, Robert Macauley. Macauley "adopted" Covenant House and recruited some of his influential friends, including former Treasury Secretary William Simon and J. Peter Grace to join the Covenant House board of directors.(3,35) Under the tutelage of Macauley and the board, Covenant House gathered influence and financial support from around the nation and expanded its operations.(3) It is now a multinational organization with 17 centers serving 25,000 youth in Canada, the United States, and Latin America.(3) Many of the Covenant House land acquisitions were financed by a $40 million loan from Charles Keating. Keating, a major figure in the savings and loan scandal and a devout Catholic, was chairman of Lincoln Savings and Loan.(12) Each center has its own board. It is unclear whether centers are responsible for their own funding and programs, or whether this is coordinated centrally. Father Ritter was on the boards of many (if not all) of the centers.(27,28,29) Covenant House has a paid staff of 1,700 and about 2,000 volunteer workers.(10) The Covenant House image began to crumble in December 1989 when former resident Kevin Lee Kite, a former male prostitute, claimed in an interview in Outweek Magazine that Father Ritter had used some $25,000 in Covenant House funds to support him in return for sexual favors. Kite also revealed that Ritter had provided him with papers that allowed him to assume the identity of Tim Warner, a young boy who had died (see Misc).(4,10) Subsequently three other former residents of Covenant House--Darryl J. Bassile, Paul Johnson, and John Melican--came forward stating that they also had sexual relationships with Father Ritter.(3) Kite's accusations opened the door for financial scrutiny of Covenant House which led to charges of financial impropriety stemming from the use of a $1 million tax-exempt "Franciscan Charitable Trust." This fund was established by Ritter in 1983, apparently without the knowledge of his Franciscan order or of the full board directors of Covenant House.(6,9) The fund was not registered with the state of New York, nor did it file returns with the IRS.(11) Covenant House counsel Edmund J. Burns, the sole trustee of the fund, resigned in early March.(9) The trust, ostensibly set up to support Covenant House charitable work, was used primarily to make substantial personal loans to Ritter, his sister and Covenant House employees and board members.(6) Ritter acknowledged that he gave himself $140,000 from the Franciscan Charitable Trust to cover his expenses and conduct his ministry. He told the New York Times, "I thought I was doing a good thing, to take care of the kids."(11) Two Covenant House board members, James Kennedy and James Maguire--both of whom received loans from the fund, have resigned.(6) During his tenure as acting president James Harnett requested that former New York Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire, now a private investigator, explore all allegations made against Covenant House.(6) Under pressure from his order Ritter took a "leave" from his role as president on Feb 6, 1990, and appointed Frank Macchiarola as acting president.(3,6,8) After reviewing some private files, Macchiarola initiated an investigation of the irregularities and allegations revealed in the files. Macchiarola was forced from the presidency within days of starting the investigation and was replaced by James Harnett, Covenant House chief operating officer. Macchiarola's resignation was apparently forced by pressure from Ritter, who then formally resigned on February 27, 1990.(8,32) On February 28 Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced that Father Ritter would not face criminal charges.(8) John Cardinal O'Connor intervened on behalf of the Catholic Church to rescue Covenant House. O'Connor did not place the group under the jurisdiction of the archdiocese, but did help to find a new interim president. The archdiocese agreed to pay the salary of the acting president.(9) Sister Mary Rose McGeady was selected from a pool of 120 candidates to become the new president of Covenant House.(31) She will receive a salary of $120,000 which will be paid to her order. McGeady will receive an annual stipend of $5,000.(43) Countries: CA, GT, HO, ME, PN, and US. Funding: Covenant House receives 95 percent of its funding from corporations, individual donations, and private sources other than the Catholic Church.(25) It is reported to have a mailing list of 800,000 names.(10) The 1989 Christmas fundraising drive, which began after the scandal surfaced, brought in $3 million less than the anticipated $15 million.(10) The 1989 income of Covenant House is listed as $89 million.(9) Covenant House reveals very little about its finances in its reports. Its main annual report has no financial figures. The annual reports for some of the branches do contain summary figures, but without financial notes or enough detail to make them meaningful. Activities: Covenant House in 1990, through its centers around the U.S., Canada and Central America, provided refuge and assistance to some 28,000 homeless teens suffering from a variety of difficulties, including child and sexual abuse, prostitution, drugs, and more recently, AIDS.(1,11) Covenant House currently operates shelters in New York, Toronto, Fort Lauderdale, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles, Anchorage, and Guatemala.(33) Covenant House offers the following services to its clients: Crisis Centers with 24-hour open intake for youths under 21. The centers offer shelter, medical care and counseling. Outreach vans which cruise the streets offering youth counseling, food, and referrals. Health Services from clinics which include OB/GYN services, AIDS testing, health education and counseling. Substance Abuse Prevention which includes a long-term treatment program. Rights of Passage to address the long-term needs of homeless adolescents. This is a 12 to 18 month program that attempts to ready residents for "life after Covenant House," including job training and living skills. The Mother and Child program deals with the problems facing pregnant teens. Aftercare provides support for clients after they leave Covenant House.(33) According to its critics, however, the organization did not focus adequately on long-term care and spent a huge portion of its income on exorbitant staff wages and contract fees.(11) In 1987 Covenant House established NINELINE, a national toll-free runaway crisis hotline that provides crisis intervention, referral services to local agencies, and information for youth around the United States and Canada.(1,14,33) According to Covenant House, NINELINE receives more than 150,000 calls each month.(33) Covenant House's Rights of Passage (ROP) program assisted 35 young women in 1987.(1) Some of those in the ROP program have been given the opportunity to go to college. Covenant House joined with St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont to give six of its most promising shelter residents a chance to attend St. Michaels.(26) Covenant House awarded $350,000 in contract fees to Ritter's niece and her husband for work on Covenant House Buildings. According to officials, they were the low bidders.(11) Guatemala Covenant House has had as many as 60 programs in Guatemala, including two homes for young boys, four homes for adolescent boys, five homes for girls, two homes for handicapped girls, a special placement program for children with special needs, a private accelerated education school, an experimental child-managed farm, and a community development center.(12,13,37) Roberto Alejos Arzu was a major figure assisting Ritter to establish Covenant House operations in Central America. Alejos, a staunch anticommunist and former business partner of deposed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, has been particularly helpful in connecting Covenant House with wealthy donors in Central America. Alejos lent his plantation to the CIA for training the Bay of Pigs troops.(12) The initial Covenant House operation in Central America was run by Pat Atkinson, a 22-year-old former child care worker and personal secretary to Ritter who was implicated in the scandal around Father Ritter.(35) However, no charges were brought against Atkinson.(35,37) Under Atkinson, the Covenant House had a "comfortable relationship with the ruling military and aristocracy," and took in children brought to them in the middle of the night by the military. Human rights organizations alleged that these children were orphaned by death squad activities.(37) Ridgeway and Baker point out in their article that Covenant House's entry into Central America coincided nicely with the foreign policy needs of the Reagan administration.(12) Atkinson was replaced in 1990 by Bruce Harris. Harris has severed Covenant House's ties with Alejos and other rightwing patrons and has replaced staff members suspected of involvement with sexual abuse at Casa Alianza. He has become an outspoken critic of "official" abuse of children and has brought numerous complaints against police brutality directly to the courts.(37,38) The number of Covenant House centers that are still active in Guatemala is unclear, but a number of active programs serve the estimated 5,000 street children in Guatemala City.(41) Harris has stated that Covenant House facilities can accomodate over 500 children.(42) Casa Alianza has an outreach program that sends workers out into the streets to offer emergency care and invite children to El Refugio Alianza, the group's refuge house. It runs ARK, an educational rehabilitation program that cares for children and prepares them for a permanent home. Casa Alianza has developed a group home network that takes children after they have completed the ARK program. Children can live in the group homes until the age of 18. Casa Alianza also has special homes for handicapped children.(41) Govt Connections: William Simon was head of the Treasury under the Nixon administration.(3,11) Father Bruce Ritter was named an "unsung hero" in 1984 by then- President Ronald Reagan. President George Bush bestowed a similar honor on him in 1989.(3) Ritter served in 1985 and 1986 on Attorney General Edwin Meese's pornography commission. He was outspoken about ridding society of all pornography, even so-called "soft porn," considering it a bad influence which encouraged the sexual exploitation of the young.(3) Robert Macauley took a trip to the Sudan with then-vice president George Bush in preparation for an AmeriCares food airlift to that country. Bush's brother, Prescott Bush, Jr., sits on the AmeriCares board.(12) Private Connections: Father Bruce Ritter is a member of the Franciscan order and has taken vows of poverty and chastity.(10) Ritter is the vice president of AmeriCares, a humanitarian-aid group that played an important role in the private Nicaraguan contra supply network active during the Reagan administration.(12) AmeriCares founder and president Robert Macauley is Ritter's closest friend and served on the board of Covenant House. AmeriCares has made generous donations to Covenant House and was a major supplier for its Central American operations.(12) J. Peter Grace is a strident rightwing anticommunist. Grace was a trustee of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, a group connected to the CIA that assisted ex-Nazi intelligence officers escape prosecution. Grace is head of the Knights of Malta in the United States, and is on the board of directors of AmeriCares. His activities and those of his corporation W.R. Grace and Company have focused on Central and South America. He served as chairman of the board of the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), the Latin American arm of the AFL-CIO, which is very active in labor activities in Central America. He also chaired a businessmen's committee charged with the task of evaluating President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress program in Latin America. Grace headed President Reagan's task force on government waste, and is considered by one of his biographers as "a living example of the roots of Reaganism."(36) William Simon provides a consistent link among important private organizations active in Central America in the 1980s. Simon served on the board of AmeriCares, a group that sent millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to the contras. The aid was delivered by the Knights of Malta, an elite, conservative lay-Catholic organization of which Simon is a member.(12) He chaired the short-lived Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a group founded in 1985 by the Unification Church-owned Washington Times to raise funds for the contras. The fund, which closed its doors after fewer than six months, gave its only grant ($165,000) to AmeriCares.(12) Simon also served on the national council of PRODEMCA (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America), another member of the private contra-support network.(15,16) He is an international business counselor at the rightwing think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which has a scholar's chair entitled "The William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy."(17,18) Simon is or was connected with two other think tanks that were influential in policy formation in the early years of the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.(16,19) Simon is or was a member of the elitist rightwing policy formation group, the Council for National Policy.(20) Robert Macauley began helping Ritter extend the services of his Times Square Crisis center in 1977. Macauley, lifelong friend and school chum of President George Bush, is the founder and president of AmeriCares. AmeriCares helped deliver supplies to the Miskito Indians along the Nicaraguan/Honduran border and delivered newsprint to the Sandinista opposition daily La Prensa. It also delivered millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to the contras.(12) AmeriCares worked with or was supported by the following groups: Knights of Malta, Christian Broadcasting Network, the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Friends of the Americas, and Brigadas de Salud.(12,21,22,23,24) The Knights of Malta is closely allied with Covenant House's Central American activities. AmeriCares consigns its shipments to the Knights and the Knights deliver it to Covenant House operations. Roberto Alejos, the leading figure of the Knights of Malta in Guatemala and the group's ambassador to Honduras, has played an important role in Covenant House's development in Central America. He was considered to be the link to numerous donations, many of them anonymous, that Covenant House received from moneyed people around Central America.(12) Alejos, linked to William Simon and J. Peter Grace through the Knights, has a history of anticommunist activities and once ran as a rightwing candidate for president of Guatemala. He was described by author Jean-Marie Simon as "a thug in a business suit," and has been connected with the CIA and the contra aid network. When queried about Alejos connection with Covenant House, Jean-Marie Simon said, "its like having Idi Amin on the board of Amnesty International."(12) Misc: Marilyn Rocky, a former director of public affairs at Covenant House says "It is an old boys network....Bob Macauley is a strong supporter of Covenant House and the Knights of Malta, who are connected with Macauley, who is connected with Covenant House. The same names appeared everywhere...there's a very strong focal point for Covenant House around Simon, Macauley, Grace, and a few others."(12) Covenant House was implicated in the issuance of the baptismal certificate of a 10-year-old boy who died of leukemia to Kevin Kite to provide Kite with a new identity. It is believed that the certificate was obtained from a Buffalo diocesan priest affiliated with Covenant House.(3) Father Ritter has acknowledged that Covenant House officials secured the certificate.(7) In October 1989 a young man reportedly connected to Covenant House was murdered. Covenant House officials said they didn't know the victim, but his photo is featured in the Covenant House 1989 annual report.(11) Comments: Under the leadership of Father Ritter, Covenant House promotional materials, books, and annual reports contained very little information about the activities and facilities of Covenant House. Its annual reports contained no financial information and with regard to activities offered no more than a sparse collection of broad-brush demographics on numbers of children served. For the most part, Covenant House materials and reports produced during Ritter's years contain photos of soulful children with large, empty eyes along with heartrending stories of their lives. A particularly appealing photo may appear in several reports. Among the organization's board of directors were wealthy, well- connected individuals who spearheaded Covenant House's rapid growth from a small organization run by the individual efforts of Father Ritter to a multi-million dollar international agency. It is quite possible that Covenant House was seen as a useful and sympathetic political tool by its influential benefactors. In Guatemala Covenant House took in children reported orphaned as the result of death squad activities. In the United States, it fit into the Reagan scheme to "privatize" social services. According to Russ Baker's article in the Voice, the vast majority of Covenant House's clients were inner-city minority youth suffering from the loss of social services under the Reagan administration.(35) Since Covenant House offers no information on the lives of its clients after they leave, it remains unclear whether or not the operation is able to have long-term impact on the lives of street children or simply offers them brief refuge. U.S. Address: 345 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011-5002. Sources: 1. "Miles to Go," Covenant House, annual report, 1987. 2. "Promises to Keep," Covenant House, annual report--Guatemala branch, 1986. 3. Evan Gahr, "Ritter Steps Aside as Investigation Continues," National Catholic Reporter, Feb 16, 1990. 4. Joe Feuerherd, "Sexual Allegations Still Follow Ritter," National Catholic Reporter, Jan 26, 1990. 5. "False Use of Boy's Baptismal Papers for Runaway Raises Questions," National Catholic Reporter, Feb 16, 1990. 6. Joe Feuerherd, "Covenant House Officials Resign," National Catholic Reporter, Mar 16, 1990. 7. "Covenant House Says It Used Fake Certificate," National Catholic Reporter, Feb 23, 1990. 8. "Manhattan D.A. Drops Ritter Investigation," National Catholic Reporter, Mar 9, 1990. 9. M.A. Farber, "O'Connor Is Moving to Clear Up 'Mess' at Covenant House," New York Times, Mar 10, 1990. 10. Mary Cronin, "Bleak Days for Covenant House," Time, Feb 19, 1990. 11. "Sex, Cash and Family Favors: New Allegations Rock Covenant House," Newsweek, Mar 26, 1990. 12. Russell W. Baker and James Ridgeway, "Hearts and Minds: Covenant House and the Catholic Team in Central America," Village Voice, Feb 20, 1990. 13. Casa Alianza, Covenant House in Guatemala, annual report, 1987. 14. "The Street Is No Place for a Child," Covenant House--Texas, annual report, 1987. 15. Common Cause Magazine, Mar/Apr 1988. 16. New Right Humanitarians (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1986). 17. Alison Muscatine, "Georgetown's Media Profs," The Washington Post, May 11, 1986. 18. Programs & Activities, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1987-1988. 19. David Ivon, "International Freedom Foundation," Covert Action Information Bulletin, #31, Winter 1989. 20. Phone interview with Sidney Blumenfeld, Sep 1989. 21. Joanne Omang, "$14 Million in Medical Aid Funneled to Central America," Washington Post, Dec 27, 1984. 22. Shirley Christian, "Nicaraguan Rebels Reported to Raise Up to $25 Million," New York Times, Aug 13, 1985. 23. "Review and Outlook: Overt U.S. Operations," Wall Street Journal, Dec 26, 1986. 24. Private Organizations with U.S. Connections in Honduras (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1988). 25. James N. Baker, "Crisis at Covenant House: Father Ritter Under Fire," Newsweek, Dec 25, 1989. 26. James N. Baker, "Helping Dropouts Drop In," Newsweek, Aug 3, 1987. 27. Covenant House, New Orleans, annual report, 1987. 28. Covenant House, New York, annual report, 1987. 29. Covenant House, Texas, annual report, 1987. 30. Private Organizations with U.S. Connections in Guatemala (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1988). 31. "Sister Named to Head Covenant House," National Catholic Reporter, July 27, 1990. 32. Gabriel Rotello, Outweek, Mar 28, 1989. 33. Covenant House Program Summary, received from Covenant House, May 21, 1991. 34. List of board of directors, Covenant House, May 21, 1991. 35. Russ Baker, "A Thousand Points of Blight," Village Voice, Jan 8, 1991. 36. Penny Lernoux, "Who's Who? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 37. "War for the Children, Guatemala Covenant House Confronts Death Squads," Newsday, Oct 7, 1990. 38. Mary Jo McConahay, "Guatemala Waging War on Its Street Children," National Catholic Reporter, Sep 26, 1990. 39. Candice Hughes, "Guatemala Homicide Exposed," Albuquerque Journal, Dec 14, 1990. 40. Letters from Bruce Harris, Casa Alianza, April 4, 1991 and Feb 11, 1991. 41. Casa Alianza, Guatemala City programs, brochure, undated, received, Feb 1991. 42. "Bruce's Helping Hand for Street Children," unknown source, copies of article available from Resource Center, received Feb 1991. 43. Ralph Blumenthal, "Covenant Inquiry Cites Reports from 70's," New York Times, Aug 4, 1990. * GroupWatch files at: http://www.pir.org/gw A. 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