When former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden chose Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, he called Harris as a “fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants.”

However, Harri’s track record says a different thing. In her tenure as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor, the Democrat failed to fight for what Biden described as the “little guys.” Despite the victims’ pleas, Harris failed to prosecute Catholic priests over allegations of sexual abuse.

According to Peter Schweizer, author of the book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite and president of the Government Accountability Institute, he claimed that in her 13-year career as a district attorney and then-attorney general, Harris failed to prosecute even a single priest while 50 other cities were able to bring charges against members of the religious order.

Schweizer continued that aside from Harris’s failure to make the priests accountable, he cites that they “would strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred.” The issue is particularly interesting since before she took office, former San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan had already launched an investigation to look into the allegations against members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

While Harris does not hold close ties with the Catholic church, her campaign to keep Hallinan out of office allowed her to receive large sums of cash both from the Catholic Church and other Catholic organizations. Schweizer claimed that Joseph Russoniello, one of the lawyers who have handled the scandal, had also served as the Catholic Church’s National Review Board (NRB) of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Russoniello also donated $1,250, the maximum amount of cash allowed by law, and gave another $2,250 from his law firm. Most importantly, he was a member of Harris’ advisory council during her tenure as a district attorney.

Another law firm, Bingham McCutcheon, who had also handled some of the church’s legal matters, also donated $2,825. This is especially peculiar since the law firm only donated to two other candidates who have run for the district of San Francisco, with a total of $650. Moreover, other campaign donations were also made from several law firms who have represented the church in their case.

For example, a board member of the San Francisco Catholic archdiocese-related organization, along with their family members, was able to contribute a whopping $50,095 to Harris campaign. This meant that Harris already had close ties and had the motive to hide the documents which contained information of the abuse.

As a result, Harris had deliberately decided to hide the records from Hallinan’s investigation, despite pleas from the church’s victims. Schweizer wrote that ‘“They were outraged by her actions. Far from protecting victims, they argued, the cover-up was actually protecting the abusers by keeping their alleged crimes secret.”