Victims move to recover $1M in payments made by Baltimore Archdiocese before bankruptcy

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Survivors’ committee seeks recovery of $1M in payments before bankruptcy .

Motion for derivative standing filed against Baltimore Archdiocese.

Nearly 1,000 child sex abuse claims linked to bankruptcy case.

Charitable immunity trial set for December to determine liability.

The committee representing abuse victims in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy case has moved to recover more than $1 million in “avoidable” payments made by the archdiocese in the three months before it declared bankruptcy in 2023.

The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors on Aug. 18 filed a motion for derivative standing to force the return of allegedly unnecessary payments the archdiocese made while it was “at acute risk of insolvency” and knew it would file for bankru