The Legionaries Scandal

Certain aspects of their organization:

With regard to your efforts to investigate Legionary finances in Mexico you know it's not an easy task. Apart from any sinister reasons - of which I am unaware - in Mexico because of the anti-clerical laws, religious congregations "hid" their assets behind small, purposely created, "shell corporations" like a limited-liability corporation. The upside of this is that religious property (schools, universities, hospitals etc.) were protected from expropriation because the religious did not "own" them. The downside legacy is that it is not easy for an outsider to know precisely what is owned and by whom.

resemble other orders in the Church, and for much the same reason.