Connors Vilardo, LLP 1000 Liberty Building 424 Main Street - Buffalo, ew York 14202 PERSONAL AND-CONFIDENTIAL MOST REVEREN RICHARD J. MALONE DIOCESE 0F BUFFALO STATUS REPORT OF PENDING MATTERS i DATED: SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 THIS DOCUMENT IS PROTECTED BY THE PRIVILEGE AND THE WORK-PRODUCT DOCTRINE AND IS PREPARED IN ANTICIPATION 0F LITIGATION. Terrence M- Connors, Esq. CONNORS VILARDO, LLP 1000 Liberty Building 424 Main Street Buffalo, New York 14202 a grant his request. There has been no activity on this matter since June 1998. FR. ROBERT STOLINSKI Father Robert Stolinski was a resident at the parish where Father Joseph Bisonette was killed several years aqo. When the police investigated, they found a great deal of pornography (male homosexual po_nography not involving children}. Father Stolinski was counseled. A short time later, there was some financial improprieties and he was found to have been binge shopping. He was then sent to Southdowns for analysis and counseling. In 2009, Bishop Grosz received complaints from parish parsonnel that they had found pornography in Father Stolinski?s room at St. James Parish in Jamestown. The pornography involved sexual acts between men and male teenagers, but no pornography, After Bishop Grosz met with Father Stolinski, the parish was told that Father Stolinski was retiring for health reasons. Father Stolinski was to be again sent to Southdowns for a consultation and treatment. In March 2010; Mary Ann Diebel?Braun received a telephone call from a woman at St. James Parish. The woman reported that a priest who had been ?removed from ministry in 2009,? Father Robert Stolinski, planned to celebrate the St. Joseph?s Day 246