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| "Go forth to procure and purvey the children, land & votes for there is no need to register for FARA in my name as I am the tax exempt king." |
May the foreign invasion of the United States be bountiful with many children, land and votes, by saving the salvaged souls of the savages.
Taken from the U.S. Constitution:
“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”.
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Head of Vatican financial regulator leaves job weeks after police raids
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Monday the head of its financial regulator would leave, weeks after unprecedented police raids on his organization and another key arm of the Catholic Church’s bureaucracy.
Rene Bruelhart, a 47-year-old Swiss lawyer, told Reuters he had resigned from the top job at the Financial Information Authority (AIF), but did not go into further detail.
Vatican police entered the offices of the AIF and of the Secretariat of State - the administrative heart of the Catholic Church - on Oct. 1, as part of an investigation into an investment the Secretariat hade made in London real estate.
The officers, operating under a search warrant secured by the Vatican’s own prosecutor, seized documents and computers.
The head of the Secretariat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, last month acknowledged that the property deal had not been transparent and promised to shed light on it.
The AIF board, headed by Bruelhart, has said the regulator did nothing wrong when it looked over the property investments.
A Vatican statement said Bruelhart would leave at the end of his five-year term on Tuesday and a successor would be named after Pope Francis returns from a trip to Asia on Nov. 26.
“I resigned,” Bruelhart told Reuters by phone shortly after the announcement was made.
Five Vatican employees were suspended immediately after the Oct. 1 raids, including AIF director Tommaso di Ruzza.
Two weeks later, Domenico Giani, the Vatican’s longtime security chief and the pope’s personal bodyguard, resigned over the leak of a document related to the investigation.
Vatican prosecutor Gian Piero Milano is looking into possible crimes such as embezzlement, abuse of office, fraud and money laundering connected to the purchase of the building by the Secretariat of State, according to people familiar with his search warrant.
The Secretariat of State spent about $200 million in 2014 for a minority stake in a complex plan to buy the building in London’s Chelsea district and convert it into luxury apartments.
The personnel changes at the AIF come as the Vatican is preparing for a new evaluation by Moneyval, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, which has given Vatican financial reforms mostly positive reviews in its most recent evaluations.
Moneyval executive secretary Matthias Kloth told Reuters last month after the police raids that the organization was “following developments closely”. He said Moneyval’s onsite visit will go ahead as scheduled next spring ahead of a new evaluation in December.
Pope Francis gives three Detroit priests honorary title of 'monsignor'
Church buys Detroit Land Bank Authority homes to help revitalize neighborhood
Detroit Archdiocese transfers assets; critics say it's a shell game
I call it Corporate Shape Shifting.
The Archdiocese of Detroit transferred hundreds of parishes this year to a separate real estate corporation, a move critics say is similar to attempts across the country by the Catholic Church to shield assets from lawsuits filed by victims of clergy sex abuse.
For the six-county archdiocese, which includes 313 parishes, this is a first step toward creating an individual corporation for each parish, archdiocese spokesman Ned McGrath said Thursday. He said U.S. dioceses had been encouraged by church leadership to make such a change since 1911, and timing has nothing to do with concerns over lawsuits, which have already cost the church billions of dollars.
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| Mark Van Faussien Azimuth Capital |
ID Number: 802177253
The name of the DOMESTIC NONPROFIT CORPORATION: MOONEY REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS
Entity type: DOMESTIC NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Identification Number: 802177253
Date of Incorporation in Michigan: 03/22/2018
Purpose:
Term: Perpetual
Most Recent Annual Report: 2019 Most Recent Annual Report with Officers & Directors: 2019
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: JEFF WAGONER
Street Address: 12 STATE ST
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: DETROIT State: MI Zip Code: 48226
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address:
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: State: Zip Code:
The Officers and Directors of the Corporation:
Title Name Address
PRESIDENT TIMOTHY M. MONAHAN 1684 DEVONWOOD DR. ROCHESTER HILLS, MI 48306 USA
TREASURER JEFF WAGONER 12 STATE ST. DETROIT, MI 48226 USA
SECRETARY MARK VANFAUSSIEN 31492 LOST HOLLOW ROAD BEVERLY HILLS, MI 48025 USA
DIRECTOR GERALD MCENHILL 3725 ERIE DRIVE ORCHARD LAKE, MI 48324 USA
DIRECTOR ANTHONY RICHTER 1540 RIVERBANK LINCOLN PARK, MI 48146 USA
Act Formed Under: 162-1982 Nonprofit Corporation Act
Acts Subject To:
162-1982 Nonprofit Corporation Act
The corporation is formed on a Membership basis.
Terry McKiernan, co-founder of BishopAccountability.org, which tracks the abuse crisis, said this is a shell game to protect those assets from seizure through lawsuits regarding child sex abuse. He compared it to several other cases, such as a fund the Archdiocese of Milwaukee used to try to protect tens of millions of dollars in assets when it entered bankruptcy.
"I don't know if Detroit will go in that direction," McKiernan said. "But clearly, they're bracing for something."
Across the United States, about 20 dioceses and other religious orders have filed for bankruptcy protection as a result of clergy sex abuse claims, the Associated Press reported last week. As a result, victims' advocates say they are seeing trends across the country that include shifting of assets to other funds or parishes, a tactic previously used in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee and Southern California.
"This is not an unusual step," said James Stang, a Los Angeles attorney who has represented more than 13 creditors' committees involving survivors of sexual abuse and now represents victims of former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. "They will tell you that the transfer of the property to a trust or away from the archdiocese actually reflects their canon law concepts. I look at it as club rules."
Mooney Real Estate Holdings was incorporated as a nonprofit in March through the Bodman law firm in Detroit, with the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit named as its sole member. Details of the corporation were reported Monday by Church Militant, an independent conservative Catholic news website that has long been at odds with the Catholic Church.
The purposes of Mooney Real Estate Holdings, according to its articles of incorporation document, include to operate "exclusively for religious purposes" and "to acquire, own and lease real property for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit" and its "parishes, schools, cemeteries and other ministries, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and other religious, charitable and educational organizations ..."
That document is dated March 22, a month after two bills — which were scaled back before they became law — were introduced to extend the statute of limitations for child victims of sexual abuse. The bills initially had drawn concerns from the Catholic Church.
Stang said the Detroit Archdiocese's move appears to have been to "put the assets out of reach," but it wouldn't necessarily stop an attorney in a potential lawsuit, who could sue for a fraudulent transfer.
"When you look at intent to defraud, timing is critical," Stang said.
In a letter dated June 22 that McGrath said was shared with all the priests and parishes in June, the Rev. Jeffrey D. Day wrote an explanation of the ownership transfer as a "century-old quest."
"For historical background, the Holy See in 1911 directed dioceses in the U.S. to move toward the civil law model of parish incorporation, to be more closely aligned with canon law. It recommended parish incorporation versus the 'corporate sole' model in which all arch/diocesan property is titled in the name of the diocesan bishop," according to the letter.
The Archdiocese of Detroit started moving toward parish incorporation about 11 years ago, but McGrath said the Great Recession and other factors got in the way.
"All I can say is this is something we started trying to do in 2007, and we're trying to do it again," McGrath said. "That's all. We're just trying to get in line with church law on the whole thing. There's no other motive to it other than that."
The Archdiocese of Detroit said it has paid out more than $3 million in settlements and counseling costs for victims in clergy sex abuse cases since 2004. Nationally, abuse victims’ lawsuits have forced U.S. dioceses and religious orders to pay more than $3 billion in settlements, NPR reported in August.
Since 2002, the Archdiocese of Detroit has published a list of clergy accused of abuse, McGrath said.
"Our record of working with people who bring their complaints forward speaks for itself," he said. "One complaint is one too many. But I think we've been very receptive to the complaints and responses. So I don’t think we have anything to have to defend in that particular area. Can we do better? Sure, I believe we can always do better."
McKiernan called the property transfer "a pretty clear attempt to firewall." He said that recent raids indicate authorities are looking aggressively into allegations.
"There's not only potential criminal charges but also a considerable financial exposure, and it certainly looks to me like the archdiocese is creating a sort of segmented system to deal with that new reality."
In October, law enforcement officials with the Michigan Attorney General's Office executed search warrants for clergy files at all seven Catholic dioceses in Michigan as part of its investigation into sexual abuse of children by priests.
But McGrath said they didn't see this coming seven months earlier, when Mooney Real Estate Holdings was established.
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2 comments:
FUN FACT! A title to a property from a foreign entity, like the church, to an officer of an NGO, is called an emolument .
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