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Still, the church's secrecy and defiance are formidable obstacles. In 1998 Minnesota attorney Jeffrey Anderson sued the diocese in Stockton, Calif., on behalf of two brothers who had been sexually abused. Anderson discovered--in the middle of the trial, when he happened to rephrase a question posed to the diocese comptroller--that the diocese operated the separate Roman Catholic Welfare Corp., worth an estimated $400 million. But it was too late to add another defendant to the suit and too expensive to start a new trial. A jury awarded $29 million to Anderson's clients, but the diocese, pleading...
...must act as forensic investigators, digging through real estate title-transfer records and questioning local officials about church management of various charitable entities. They are finding, for instance, that church authorities regularly keep only records of the book value--rather than the current market value--of certain properties. The Stockton diocese, for example, in 1998 valued its multimillion-dollar cathedral at $28,000, the cost to build...
DIED. FRANK CROSETTI, 91, shortstop who became third-base coach for the New York Yankees for a total of 37 seasons; in Stockton, Calif. "Once a Yankee, always a Yankee," he said...
...stop at least an inch above the knee. It was enforced before, in 1997, when officials thought shorts were overly baggy-saggy a la hip-hop fashion, violating "the integrity of the uniform," in the words of the NBA's Tim Frank. Shaq says he refuses to wear "John Stockton shorts," referring to the Utah Jazz 39-year-old throwback who wears them shortish and tightish. If he did that, Shaq opined, the kids "would laugh at me, and I wouldn't be their favorite player anymore." He paused before reporters to dab fake tears with a paper towel. Said...
...from donors who were told the money was intended to help Afghan refugees. Dr. Ali Zaki, an Egyptian-born physician who is one of the leaders of the mosque, says he later accompanied the man he knew only as Dr. Muez on a visit to other Islamic centers in Stockton and Sacramento but did not learn the true purpose of the trip until he was contacted...