Expert hired to help resolve New Orleans archdiocese bankruptcy faces FBI scrutiny

The Guardian ^ | Oct. 11, 2024 | Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans

[ConservativeMind]

A nationally renowned business-turnaround expert hired to help resolve the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans’ contentious and costly bankruptcy – which has ensnared hundreds of clergy molestation survivors – is now facing scrutiny from the FBI after his conduct in a separate case raised ethics-related questions.

The Wall Street Journal published reporting on the FBI and Mohsin “Mo” Meghji on Wednesday, the day he was due to complete an assessment on the viability of two competing archdiocesan restructuring plans drafted by the church as well as those to whom it is indebted, among them hundreds of victims of sexually abusive clergymen.

Church bankruptcy attorneys are proposing to settle the case – filed in 2020 – by paying about $125,000 to each of more than 500 molestation claimants, who in turn are demanding $2m per claim.

Meghji’s report, ordered in August by New Orleans federal bankruptcy judge Meredith Grabill at the price of $350,000, is scheduled to be publicly released by 23 October. Neither he nor Grabill responded to comment requests.

The FBI declined to comment on WSJ’s piece, whose contents have not gone over well among some attorneys representing abuse claimants in the New Orleans church bankruptcy.

They privately said it was ironic that the archdiocese whose finances were under review by the New York-based Meghji and his associates is itself under law enforcement scrutiny. In April, at least one FBI agent accompanied Louisiana state police troopers as they served a search warrant on the archdiocese amid an investigation into whether the organization’s leadership had run a child sex-trafficking ring responsible for “widespread sexual abuse of minors dating back decades” that was “covered up and not reported to law enforcement”, according to criminal court documents filed under oath.

[PGR88]

What’s your deal with this?

You only post on sexual abuse of Catholic priests and bankruptcy of Catholic diocese

Why is that? Seriously - we are all curious

[ConservativeMind]

Ask Morgana.

[kiryandil]

LOL

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[ConservativeMind]

Would you like me to add my threads to all of Morgana’s Protestant threads?

[SoConPubbie]

What’s your deal with this?

Did you ask the same question of Morgana?

[fruser1]

IIRC there was a report that abuse in the church occurred at a lower per-capita rate than the general public.

Punish them all, but to be fair, public schools should be included in these collections.

[ConservativeMind]

Exactly.