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Q.
Okay. You said that you’re required by the IRS
to keep certain folders. Which folders are you talking
about?
 
A.
No. The Church is required by the IRS to keep
accurate financial records, so any - - any donations made
by parishioners, we have to keep track of those. We’re
required every year to give them a statement of their
account. So --
 
Q.
So all those folders -- are they accessible to
us, all those folders having to do with your financial
records, as far as you know?
 
A.
I don’t know what the normal legal proceedings
are to get them. But as far as I know, there wouldn’t be
any reason you couldn’t get them. But you’d have to check
that with - -
 
Q.
How do your records request relate to someone
who is deceased? What happens to a person’s files after
they’re deceased?
 
A.
They go to archives.
Q.
And where is that? Los Angeles? ‘
A.
No.
Well, I don’t know how far back we’re required
to keep files. I know that, last year, we had a bunch of
our financial records from, like, you know, ten years or
so ago, go out to Los Angeles. But as far as I know --

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