This one is set to go off

This is the itch that AveWatch has been scratching for over a year, and the big story that nobody in the main stream media will mention. Ample evidence demonstrates that, for years, Tom Monaghan has coercively used the Ave Maria Foundation to improperly create and run other non-profit and for-profit ventures that are managed centrally on Monaghan’s whim rather than as independent autonomous entities. Through financial coercion, he forces the recipients of his “philanthropy” to put duty to Himself above fiduciary duties to the organization. Tom Monaghan’s good supersedes all other duties in these organizations. Monaghan’s person, his Foundation, and his for-profit Florida businesses – including his mega-development Ave Maria Town – have benefited at the expense of Michigan’s Ave Maria School of Law, Ave Maria College, and their respective alumni, employees, donors, and students.

A conservative Catholic experiment in higher education is about to erupt in legal fireworks. As a point of note, if you are going to act as a tyranical employer, its best not to start firing lawyers, lest one of them take your threats seriously.

I don’t know what the Las Vegas oddsmakers are giving, but I would be surprised if either Ave Maria institution survives until the end of 2008.