{"id":5055,"date":"2011-12-12T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2011-12-28T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:46:47","slug":"cost-of-a-coverup-a-million-dollars-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/cost-of-a-coverup-a-million-dollars-in-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of a Coverup: A Million Dollars in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Saint John&#8217;s Abbey resolved and settled various sexual abuse claims against it through monetary and non-monetary agreements. The legal, media and settlement payment expense was approximately $1,000,000.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Abbey Financial Report, December 2002<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Cost of a Coverup: A Million Dollars in 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an abbey financial report dated December 7, 2002:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Saint John&#8217;s Abbey resolved and settled various sexual abuse claims against it through monetary and non-monetary agreements. The legal, media and settlement payment expense was approximately $1,000,000. This expense is reflected in the alms and donations line item, and\u00a0it was funded from the building and replacement reserve, and fund balance reserve.\u00a0The settlement of these cases has severely reduced Saint John&#8217;s Abbey financial flexibility and strength.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20021207_cost_coverup2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5098\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"20021207_cost_coverup2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20021207_cost_coverup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20021207_cost_coverup2.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20021207_cost_coverup2-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This information is not consistent with other statements [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=2590\">View<\/a> ] made by abbey personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the monk who made this and other documents available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saint John&#8217;s Abbey resolved and settled various sexual abuse claims against it through monetary and non-monetary agreements. The legal, media and settlement payment expense was approximately $1,000,000.&#8221; &#8211; Abbey Financial Report, December 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settlement-information","wp-image-borders"],"views":764,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}