CENTRAL NEW YORK: Judge reserves decision in $4.35 million lawsuit against bishop
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
4/15/2006

OWEGO, NY: New York State Supreme Court Judge, Jeffrey A. Tait declined on Good Friday to dismiss charges brought by an Episcopal priest against Central New York Bishop Gladstone "Skip" Adams III, the diocese and former controller and administrator Gael Sopchak.

Fr. David G. Bollinger, rector of St. Paul's church in Owego who was inhibited by Bishop Adams for alleged financial irregularities, outing an alleged pedophile priest and for invading his personal bank account by the controller, is suing the bishop, diocese and Sopchak for $4.35 million.

Named in the lawsuit was the alleged pedophile priest Fr. Ralph Johnson now living in Gibson, Pennsylvania. According to an eyewitness report the judge showed considerable interest in the now resigned diocesan administrator's breaking into Bollinger's personal accounts.

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