MILWAUKEE (WI)
SNAP Wisconsin

Milwaukee Federal Judge rules against Dolan’s “cemetary scheme” to hide 55 million from sex abuse victims

Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
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Before the Milwaukee Archdiocese filed for Federal Bankruptcy two years ago, former Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now Cardinal Archbishop of New York, moved tens of millions of dollars into a newly invented, unnecessary, and sham “cemetery trust” so that church officials could later claim that they did not have the resources to provide restitution and aid to victims of clerical child molesters.

On Friday, Federal Judge Susan V. Kelley ruled that the archdiocese could not hide these assets from the 570 victims of childhood sex crimes who have filed cases in bankruptcy court.

When Dolan’s creative accounting was discovered and challenged by the court appointed Creditors Committee, he publically scoffed and dismissed charges that he had hid money or that…