Press Events

Nov 15, 2016: Media Advisory: Archdiocese Files Amended Reorganization Plan Contributing Less Than 1% of its Assets

Jeff Anderson to Respond to Plan at 2:30PM Press Conference Today in MinneapolisThe amended plan also lets the Archdiocese’s insurance companies off the hook and significantly undervalues their exposureWHAT: At a news conference today in Minneapolis, Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan will:•    Discuss the details of the amended bankruptcy reorganization plan filed today by the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis;•    Demand the Archdiocese uphold its pledge made to sexual abuse survivors to be transparent and accountable throughout the bankruptcy pro…

Sep 26, 2016: Media Advisory: Survivor of sexual abuse by Chicago-area priest to speak at news conference today

At a news conference today, attorney Marc Pearlman and a survivor who was sexually abused by a Chicago-area Catholic priest will announce a civil lawsuit against a Chicago Catholic religious order, the Claretian Missionaries. Discuss the Claretians’ decision to a allow an admitted sexual abuser to have unrestricted access to children for 20 years after promising to supervise him at all times around children.

Aug 23, 2016: Media Advisory: Sexual Abuse Survivors File Bankruptcy Plan that Calls for Archdiocese to Pay $80m

At a news conference Tuesday in St. Paul, Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan will discuss the details of the proposed bankruptcy plan filed Monday by the Creditors’ Committee in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis bankruptcy case; among other provisions, the proposed plan calls for the immediate release of the investigative report concerning former Archbishop John Nienstedt, all communications…

May 11, 2016: Media Advisory: Documents from Fr. James Vincent Fitzgerald’s Priest File to be Released Publicly Today

At a news conference Wednesday in Duluth, Attorney Mike Finnegan will publicly release documents for the first time from the Oblate priest file of Father James Vincent Fitzgerald. In 2013, an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Doe 19, filed a lawsuit for sexual abuse by Fr. Fitzgerald under the Minnesota Child Victims Act. The documents were used in a Ramsey…

May 09, 2016: Media Advisory: Fr. Michael Bik, St. John’s Abbey Named in Lawsuit; Press Conference Today

Bik abused the boy after St. John’s learned he sexually abused two students  in the 1970s when he was a teacher at St. Stephen’s in Anoka Bik taught at Twin Cities Catholic schools in Anoka and Shoreview before becoming a monk and priest of St. John’s At a news conference today in St. Paul, attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Bryant, along with advocate and former St. John’s monk, Patrick Wall will Announce the filing of a civil lawsuit naming St. John’s Abbey and Father Michael Bik as defendants. The suit is being brought by Doe 497…