NEW MEXICO
ABQ Journal
By Rene Romo / Journal South Reporteron Sun, Nov 18, 2012
LAS CRUCES – Federal court records show that the cash-strapped Diocese of Las Cruces lent its former contract attorney $385,000, but the money will not be easily recovered, because the attorney died in August, and his widow filed for bankruptcy protection a short while later.
A diocese attorney, however, disputes that the religious organization lent money to its former general counsel, the late Daniel Dolan.
Instead, what the bankruptcy case filed by Dolan’s widow, Linda, “lists as a loan to Mr. Dolan appears to be a loan to an entirely separate entity that the Diocese viewed as a land investment,” diocese attorney David McNeill Jr., said in an emailed response to Journal questions.
However, in a different part of the email, McNeill wrote that the money was advanced to Dolan. He said, “That matter is still under investigation.”
McNeill added that Bishop Ricardo Ramirez “had no knowledge of that transaction until recently and did not approve it.”
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