We will have to count on terrific upheavals. CNA Staff, Aug 31, 2020 / 10:30 am (CNA).- The Knights of Columbus have pledged to donate $150,000 to a Louisiana diocese badly hit by Hurricane Laura. In 2017, Anderson made an annual income of $1.4 million, down from $2.2 million in 2014.“As a result of these revenues, [Knights of Columbus] Supreme and its executives, in contrast to the local councils, sit among the world’s elite power,” the lawsuit argues.The Knights say they have 1.9 million members in the world, but the lawsuit alleges they are inflating this number by about 30% in order to keep its insurance rating high and keep selling more policies. In 2017, the Knights sold $8.78 billion in life insurance to its members, and the Knights’ website says it has a total value of more than $100 billion of life insurance coverage.
Another council tried to remove half its listed membership due to inactivity — about 200 members — but were denied by leaders on the state and national level.Councils set their own membership fees, which can vary from around $30 to $100. However, this has come under criticism as a lawsuit brought by fellow Knights says that the group has been engaging in various practices that are ethnically and morally questionable up to and including insurance fraud:Greg McAtee first joined the Knights of Columbus 16 years ago, when he was 55.He was joining a formidable club, the largest Catholic fraternal organization in the world with alumni like Babe Ruth and John F. Kennedy, and it continues to have powerful political allies in 2019. In the same email, an Alabama state representative for the Knights warned McAtee’s council that if it didn’t cover the nonpaying member’s dues, its members would all lose their benefits and the council would be suspended.Another former Knight in his seventies, who asked to remain anonymous because he was considering filing his own lawsuit, said that when he discovered some of the members on his list didn’t exist, he went to the Supreme Council, who responded with what he called “a threat with a smile.”“It was very obvious to me, when you’re looking at a man face-to-face and you bring this up, and the conversation is ‘You don’t want to go there,’ and then just a glaring stare with no further response,” the man said. The Knights of Columbus, a 501(c)(8) nonprofit, was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882 to provide benefits and community for newly arrived Irish immigrants. “One of those values is to ensure that members of the Knights provide mutual aid and assistance to fellow members of our organization.”After around two years of failed negotiations, Monday, Aug. 26, will be the first day the case will finally go to trial.BuzzFeed News spoke to seven current and former Knights of Columbus, two of whom are involved in the case, and reviewed emails, court documents, and internal membership spreadsheets and contact lists. A previous version misstated this.This story was updated after publication with clarifying language around the original lawsuit’s allegations of racketeering.Ema O'Connor is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.Looks like your browser doesn't support JavaScript. Esses Cookies nos permitem coletar alguns dados pessoais sobre você, como sua ID exclusiva atribuída ao seu dispositivo, endereço de IP, tipo de dispositivo e navegador, conteúdos visualizados ou outras ações realizadas usando nossos serviços, país e idioma selecionados, entre outros. The process will be all the more arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have to be shed. “It’s all about money now, and not what we do, but how do we hide what we’ve done?”All of the seven agreed that the Knights were not a lost cause, but said the organization’s leaders need to be held responsible for what is happening. “It’s time for it to come to a screeching halt. When they couldn’t get them removed, they ended up paying out of pocket, or sometimes dipping into the funds they had raised for charity, five of the men told BuzzFeed News.The lawsuit was originally filed in 2017 by UKnight, a Colorado-based IT firm hired by the Knights of Columbus to update communication software for its more than 10,000 local US chapters, referred to as councils. Membership sheets of nearly 100 members provided to BuzzFeed News from different chapters of the Knights showed that the majority of those insured with the Knights were more than 50 years old, and many were in their sixties and seventies. Those aren’t the real Knights to me.
After making several efforts to get in touch, the leaders of the council managed to track down most of them, but two were dead, about 40 said they planned to withdraw from the Knights, and they never managed to find another 30 of the members.When they tried to alert the state and national council of Knights, known as “the Supreme Council,” about the issue, they were instructed to jump through nearly impossible hoops to get the inactive members off their rolls, they said. One may predict that all of this will take time. ET The Knights of Columbus and the Pro-Life Cause. Starting as a type of fraternal benefit society, she has become a major player in life insurance as well as lobbying in the US Congress. “Sad cases occurred when a member did not attend a council meeting, and the council would forget about him, his family, his life circumstances.”The affidavit says that if a member has lapsed on his dues for medical or financial reasons, they can apply for a waiver, or another Knight can “volunteer” to subsidize his dues. But what they’re doing is affecting everyone.”In its court filings, UKnight says they have spoken to “numerous” local councils that tell the same story as the members who spoke to BuzzFeed News, being forced to keep “phantoms” on their rolls and and pay their fees to the state and national organizations. Sometimes the Knights paid out of pocket for the phantom members; other times they were forced to dip into the money they had raised for charity. They regularly lobby Congress and the White House on issues of judicial nominations, religious freedom, and tax issues, and advocate against same-sex marriage and abortion.The nonprofit is also a major life insurance company.
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