NY Boys & Girls Club Proposes Up to $21 Million for Abuse Claims

Madison Square Boys & Girls Club Inc. has submitted a bankruptcy reorganization plan that would create a trust with up to $21 million to pay abuse claimants.

The New York-based chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of America filed for bankruptcy last summer to resolve 149 sex abuse claims allegedly perpetrated by a now-deceased doctor who volunteered as a physician for the organization while employed by Rockefeller University.

The plan, filed Wednesday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, is a major step for the nonprofit’s efforts to exit bankruptcy and resolve abuse victims’ ...