MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
The attorney for a man sentenced Monday for embezzling $560,000 from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis alleged that the organization has been financially supporting five priests involved in misconduct with children and four priests involved in misconduct with adult women.
Attorney Terry Duggins tried to introduce in court a March 4, 2012, memo faxed from his office to attorney William Egan of Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly of Minneapolis, a law firm hired by the archdiocese.
Ramsey County District Judge Joanne Smith would not allow it.
The memo, provided to reporters, details what Duggins described as a “hostile work environment” faced by Scott Domeier, who worked for 17 years as the director of accounting services for the archdiocese. Domeier was disturbed, the memo said, by work he had to do related to the allegations of priestly misconduct.
As a part of his annual duties, Domeier requested information from archdiocese attorneys about the status of various lawsuits, and forwarded it to the organization’s CPA firm.
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