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New Orleans sexual abuse victims approve $230m Catholic church settlement

Victims to receive payments based on severity and effects of abuse perpetrated by members of clergy

The Guardian - US

New Orleans archdiocese increases sex abuse settlement offer to $230m guaranteed

Increase from initial guarantee of $180m is enough to persuade certain attorneys who were opposed to striking a deal to instead favor settling

The Guardian - US

New Orleans archdiocese bond investors accuse church of ‘securities fraud’

Catholic church says it won’t make nearly $1m interest payment but calls fraud accusation ‘extreme stretch’

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New Orleans archdiocese says it reached abuse settlement as lawyers say deal falls about $100m short

Some lawyers of more than 600 abuse claimants trying to block approval of current agreement of chapter 11 case

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New Orleans clergy abuse survivors say they’ve lost confidence in case’s judge

Comments come after it was revealed judge ignored DoJ recommendations against expelling survivors from panel

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Judge disregarded bankruptcy trustee’s recommendation and punished New Orleans clergy abuse survivors

Molestation survivors were removed from committee in settlement talks after lawyer was accused of improperly identifying school chaplain as child sexual abuser

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New Orleans archbishop fires food bank leaders for refusing to fund abuse settlement

Bankrupt Roman Catholic archdiocese replaced members at church-affiliated non-profit over $16m dispute

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More links surface between bankruptcy case under FBI investigation and church reorganization

Some in church case worry whether connections mean they are getting a ‘fair shake’

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‘They covered up child rape’: how the New Orleans archdiocese protected a priest who preyed on children

An elderly priest’s guilty plea exposes the church’s history of shielding predators in its midst for decades

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Expert issues report on how to settle highly contentious New Orleans church bankruptcy case

Mohsin ‘Mo’ Meghji was paid $350,000 to advise on conflicting settlement proposals from the church and clergy abuse victims

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

Mohsin Meghji’s conduct in a separate case raised ethics questions as ex-judge he was linked to faces investigation

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New Orleans archdiocese bankruptcy parties wary of turnaround expert after WSJ investigation

Mohsin Meghji drew scrutiny for behavior with bankruptcy judges in unrelated case involving drugmaker

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New Orleans Catholic church offers $62.5m after abuse victims seek $1bn

Archdiocese’s proposal comes as survivors of sexual abuse by clergy request ‘very reasonable’ $1bn to settle claims

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Outside trustee formally sought for New Orleans church bankruptcy as costs soar

Media reports showed volunteer in charge of bankruptcy expenses admitted to a stunning lack of qualifications

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Bankruptcy court stacks odds in New Orleans church’s favor over abuse claims: ‘I’ve never felt so powerless’

Chapter 11 protection is designed to give an organization time to reorganize its finances to pay its debts but victims of clerical abuse feel frustrated by a lengthy and opaque process

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‘You’re only as sick as your secrets’: New Orleans clergy abuse bankruptcy is uniquely acrimonious

The church is using legal tactics to prevent testimony from survivors and spur expensive inquiries into its critics

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