Father Smyth said, 'No, I would just turn it over to Maryville anyway.' Somebody then came up with the idea of 'Well, let's at least charge the added value (to the state). It would be a charge of more than his salary. It sounded legitimate to me. ... I'm not trying to defend what we did. But there was no wrongdoing.

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