Two fired board members have issued statements saying they were removed last week by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of the Archdiocese of New Orleans after resisting pressure to channel as much as $16 million to support the church’s long-running bankruptcy negotiations with hundreds of sexual abuse survivors.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana says that it provides upwards of 39 million pounds of food and groceries to hundreds of thousands of families across South Louisiana annually.
CEO Natalie Jayroe, who led the organization for 19 years before being fired, “resolutely refused to reallocate donor funds that are solely intended to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in south Louisiana,” according to a Jan. 30 statement by dismissed board chair Bert Wilson issued via a public relations firm.
The plan was to have the charity buy church real estate with donor funds intended to feed the hungry.
The bishop would then use the proceeds of these “sales” to pay victims of sexual assaults by the priests under his supervision.
They’re not spending donor money on sex abuse settlements because they’re attempting to launder the funds first.
At least let the charaty charge exorbitant prices for the church to rent the land like the venture capital bastards do all the time.
You’re forgetting who this is supposed to benefit.
I think the plan is to have the charity buy at above market rates and then rent them back to the church for a pittance.