SaveWCAL has received confirmation that the Rice County District Court-appointed Special Master has submitted the report of his investigation to the court.
SaveWCAL is now able to release the documentation submitted to the Special Master by the Minnesota Attorney General, St. Olaf College and SaveWCAL.
SaveWCAL has issued a Press Release (with Background / Timeline information).
DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED TO THE RICE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT SPECIAL MASTER INVESTIGATION
Downloadable PDFs of the documentation submitted to the Special Master by the Minnesota Attorney General, St. Olaf College and SaveWCAL are below, in order of submission:
- December 8, 2007: SaveWCAL submits Letter Memoranda #1-4 with Exhibits
- SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #1: "Protection Of The Public Interest" [PDF, 4 pages] with SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #1 Exhibits [PDF, 18 pages]
- SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #2: "WCAL Capital Assets: Skifter Building And Rosemount Broadcasting Tower" [PDF, 3 pages] with SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #2 Exhibits Part A [PDF, 24 pages] and SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #2 Exhibits Part B [PDF, 24 pages]
- SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #3: "I. St. Olaf Claim Of 'Expending' Donations in WCAL Endowment and II. The WCAL Endowment And The Purchase Agreement" [PDF, 3 pages] with SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #3 Exhibits [PDF, 9 pages]
- SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #4: "Obstruction Of Research" [PDF, 3 pages] and SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #4 Exhibits [PDF, 6 pages]
- December 10, 2007: St. Olaf College submits Letter #1
- St. Olaf College Letter #1 [PDF, 2 pages] Note: It is very likely that St. Olaf attorneys sent this letter to the Special Master before they had received the four memoranda SaveWCAL had put in the mail two days earlier.
- St. Olaf College Letter #1 [PDF, 2 pages] Note: It is very likely that St. Olaf attorneys sent this letter to the Special Master before they had received the four memoranda SaveWCAL had put in the mail two days earlier.
- December 12, 2007: St. Olaf College submits Letter #2
- St. Olaf College Letter #2 [PDF, 1 page] Note: It is obvious that the St. Olaf attorneys sent this letter to the Special Master after receiving the four SaveWCAL memoranda.
- December 14, 2007: SaveWCAL submits one Letter and Letter Memorandum #5, as well as a Letter from a very distinguished member of the St. Olaf community
- SaveWCAL Letter #1: "Client-Lawyer Relationship" [PDF, 3 pages]
- SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #5: "Protection Of The Public Interest" [PDF, 1 page] with SaveWCAL Letter Memorandum #5 Exhibits [PDF, 2 pages]
- SaveWCAL also submitted a two-page letter from a very distinguished member of the St. Olaf community who gave SaveWCAL permission to submit the correspondence only to the Special Master and Judge Wolf (with copies to the Minnesota Attorney General and the St Olaf attorneys). We will not be making that letter public at this time.
- December 24, 2007: Minnesota Attorney General submits Letter #1
- December 29, 2007: SaveWCAL submits Letter #2
- January 12, 2008: SaveWCAL submits Letter Memorandum #6 with Exhibits
- January 26, 2008: SaveWCAL submits Letter Memorandum #7 with Exhibits
- February 5, 2008: St. Olaf College submits Letter #3 and Letter Memoranda #1-2
- February 25, 2008: Minnesota Attorney General submits Letter Memorandum #1
- March 3, 2008: St. Olaf College submits Letter #4 and Letter Memorandum #3
Total Submissions:
- The Minnesota Attorney General, the chief legal officer of the state who is charged with upholding charitable trusts and the rights of donors, submitted a total of two (2) documents: One (1) Letter and one (1) Letter Memorandum
- St. Olaf College submitted a total of seven (7) documents with no supporting Exhibits: Four (4) Letters — two (2) of which were simply cover letters — and three (3) Letter Memoranda
- SaveWCAL submitted a total of eleven (11) documents and seven (7) Exhibits packets: Two (2) Letters, eight (8) Letter Memoranda — seven (7) of which had attached Exhibits packets — as well as a two-page letter from a very distinguished member of the St. Olaf community to the Special Master that is not being made public at this time.
We will post an official statement on the SaveWCAL blog soon.
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This is all fine and good, but when will the actual findings be released. Do you have those yet?
Thanks, folks.
Is the Board of Regents governed by Christian principles, or by some other ideology which allows it to run rough shod over the clearly stated intention of the founders of the Kierkegaard Library as it appears to have done with WCAL donors? Would a secular university or college do this? Is the Board of Regents being challenged on this point? This attitude smacks of dictatorialism.