Jay Tokasz
Reporter at Buffalo News
@TheBuffaloNews reporter; part of Watchdog Team
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Jay Tokasz
The Buffalo Diocese will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that blocked the diocese from using millions of dollars from the sale of a former seminary campus to help pay a settlement with sex abuse claimants. The diocese’s lawyers this week filed a notice of appeal in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York, in response to a June 6 decision by Chief Judge Carl L.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Jay Tokasz
St. Gregory the Great, the largest parish in the Buffalo Diocese, will pay a steep price in helping the Buffalo Diocese settle nearly 900 sex abuse claims. The parish had $3.6 million in unrestricted cash and investments at the end of the most recently completed fiscal year, Aug. 31, 2024. Diocese officials now want to use three-quarters of that money, about $2.7 million, toward a $150 million settlement of the claims in federal bankruptcy court. But Richard C.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Jay Tokasz
In addition to $80 million in cash contributions from parishes, the Buffalo Diocese is also relying on $30 million from the sales of parish properties to settle sex abuse claims in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. In sum, the diocese plans to use $110 million in cash and assets from parishes to cover nearly three-quarters of the cost of settling sex abuse claims in federal bankruptcy court.
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2 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Jay Tokasz
Catholic parishes will have to pay as much as 80% of their cash assets toward a $150 million settlement of sex abuse lawsuits, the Buffalo Diocese said on Monday.
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3 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Jay Tokasz
Most of the proceeds from the $4.2 million sale of Christ the King Seminary may not be used to help the Buffalo Diocese pay a settlement with sex abuse claimants, a federal judge ruled Friday. The decision by Chief Judge Carl H. Bucki of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York throws a wrench into the diocese’s plans to use the seminary sale proceeds as part of a $150 million settlement agreed to in April.
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Buffalo Diocese says some parishes will pay as much as 80% of their cash on hand toward sex abuse settlements https://t.co/hCgwpe1wVC via @TheBuffaloNews
Second audit of Buffalo Diocese shows eight complaints of abuse lodged in 2024 https://t.co/svp5WT6L06 via @TheBuffaloNews
Diocese looking to parishes, affiliate organizations for help in paying $150 million settlement https://t.co/OCaQQynuFq via @TheBuffaloNews