Amen--you read Burke like a book. It's an overt play for the money (think that he'd be interested in them if they were in debt?), and his selective deference to canon law (while Rigali, who was a Vatican-trained scholar, did not interfer with them) resembles a bully hiding behind his mother's skirts.
Unfortunately, unless civil courts step in (and there's no indication that they can), I don't think that this congregation has a snowball's chance in Hades.
You must have missed the series of threads that explained that it was Archbishop Rigale who started the process which Archbishop Burke merely continued. Des or Irs please correct me if I am wrong,I am sure I read that about six months ago.