# federal bankruptcy court *Federal court that, in the Minnesota record, administered the Chapter 11 case of the Diocese of St. Cloud.* In the Minnesota record, a federal bankruptcy court is the forum in which the [[Diocese of St. Cloud]] filed under [[Chapter 11]] on June 15, 2020. A plan in that case was approved on December 4, 2020 against 74 claims.[^1] The record's at-issue item puts the sum at $22.5 million and the suits against the diocese at more than seventy.[^1] The item sets this bankruptcy beside the county criminal process. On the money, it states: "Not one dollar of it was moved by a Stearns County prosecution."[^1] The project anchors the item to a May 2026 White House release. Its framing is that the only sovereign that reached the institution was federal, and that it reached the institution in bankruptcy.[^2] That is the project's reading. The record here does not establish why no other forum reached the diocese's finances.[^1] ## Who The debtor was the [[Diocese of St. Cloud]], and the forum was a federal bankruptcy court.[^1] The record available here does not name the presiding judge, any trustee, or the federal district.[^1] ## What The diocese brought a Chapter 11 case, and a plan was approved against 74 claims. More than seventy suits stood behind the case.[^1] ## When - Chapter 11 filed: June 15, 2020.[^1] - Plan approved: December 4, 2020.[^1] ## How much The at-issue item describes the financial reckoning for the diocese as $22.5 million.[^1] ## How many - More than seventy suits.[^1] - 74 claims against which the plan was approved.[^1] ## In the at-issue record - **Stearns package, item AI-Stearns-027 (rank 27, 2020):** The item says the financial reckoning for the Diocese of St. Cloud came through a federal bankruptcy court and amounted to $22.5 million. It also says no part of that sum was moved by a Stearns County prosecution.[^1] The item is anchored to a White House release.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki project, *At-issue item AI-Stearns-027* (Stearns package, dated 2020-06-15; drawn from *RESEARCH_Wetterling_Diocese.md* ¶42–45). The item states the June 15, 2020 Chapter 11 filing, the $22.5 million figure, more than seventy suits, the December 4, 2020 plan approval against 74 claims, and that a Stearns County prosecution moved none of the money. The item lists three underlying sources (mprnews.org, startribune.com, stcdio.org), and none of them is among this pack's citable URLs. Anchor: https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/05/trump-administrations-full-scale-war-on-fraud/ [^2]: The White House, *Trump Administration's Full-Scale War on Fraud* (May 2026). This is the release used as the anchor for at-issue item AI-Stearns-027. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/05/trump-administrations-full-scale-war-on-fraud/