BOSTON (MA)
PRNewswire
BOSTON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Attorney's Office and
the Archdiocese of Boston have entered an agreement to resolve allegations
that the Archdiocese knowingly provided false information to the federal
government regarding one of its priests. The agreement, which is the first of
its kind in the nation, imposes rigorous disclosure and reporting requirements
for priests applying for federal service as chaplains, new reporting
requirements for Archdiocesan personnel suspected of committing federal
crimes, enhanced internal and external auditing of the Archdiocese's programs
for the protection of children, and pathbreaking work to evaluate the
effectiveness of programs designed to protect children in religious and
educational settings.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Jeffrey G. Hughes, Special
Agent in Charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector
General for the Northeast Field Office; and Kenneth W. Kaiser, Special Agent
in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England, announced
today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, a Corporation Sole
("Archdiocese of Boston"), entered into an agreement today to resolve
allegations that the Archdiocese knowingly provided false information to the
Office of Personnel Management in response to a background investigation of a
priest who had been hired as a Veterans Affairs ("VA") chaplain.