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Feb 11, 2021 While the long process of receiving justice for the thousands of Catholics who live in the Diocese of Steubenville moved another step closer to being resolved Monday, there are still questions that must be answered. A big step in that direction happened Monday, when David Franklin, the former comptroller of the diocese, entered into a plea deal in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court. The list of illegal activities committed by Franklin is long, and includes falsification, theft of funds and the defrauding of creditors. And for all of that, Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Mich...

Staff writer TESTIMONY — Bishop Jeffrey Monforton delivers a victim impact statement during Monday’s sentencing hearing for David Franklin, the Diocese of Steubenville’s former comptroller who admitted receiving nearly $300,000 in unauthorized performance bonuses, failing to turn over employee payroll taxes to the IRS and under-reporting his own income on his tax returns. -- Linda Harris STEUBENVILLE — Former Diocese of Steubenville comptroller David Franklin agreed Monday to help prosecutors build a case against others who may have benefited from lax financial oversight with...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — The Windham Windsor Housing Trust on Thursday revealed its revised plans for the old Bellows Falls Garage, saying it had listened to the public about its concerns. The 27-unit project last month had undergone a substantial revision from its original plans, and the housing trust now plans on demolishing all but the historic Rockingham Street facade and building a new timber frame structure behind it. The housing trust has made additional revisions in response to public comments, said Elizabeth Bridgewater, the executive...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Documents in a court action have revealed how SAPS Crime Intelligence attempted to have R45-million released from the Secret Service Account (SSA) in 2017 to deal with a “possible national security threat” of some “magnitude” before the ANC’s highly charged elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg in 2017. Lieutenant General Francinah Vuma, divisional commissioner: financial management and administration, in an affidavit to the South Gauteng High Court, set out how that December a “minister in the security cluster”...

The South African Editors Forum (Sanef) has welcomed the report released by the Enquiry into Media Ethics and Credibility on the ethical challenges facing the industry in South Africa.