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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2017, file photo, New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson sits on the sideline with his wife, Gayle Benson, before an NFL football game in New Orleans. An Associated Press review of public tax documents found that the Bensons' foundation has given at least $62 million to the Archdiocese of New Orleans and other Catholic causes over the past dozen years, including gifts to schools, universities, charities and individual parishes. (AP Photo/Bill Feig, File)

NFL team’s deep Catholic ties behind role in abuse crisis

By JIM MUSTIAN and REESE DUNKLIN and BRETT MARTEL - Associated Press

Fired assistant to late Saints owner awarded more than $384K

By BRETT MARTEL - Associated Press

Where did Tom Benson’s charitable giving go?

By JEFF ADELSON - Associated Press

File-This Aug. 30, 2007, file photo shows New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson left, and his wife Gayle Benson talking with coach Sean Payton before their pre-season football game in New Orleans. Benson, a successful auto dealer who brought the New Orleans Saints their only winning seasons and the &quot;Benson Boogie,&quot; has died. Benson, who has also owned the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans since 2012, was 90. The NFL and NBA teams announced Benson’s death on Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Funeral Mass held for Saints and Pelicans owner Benson

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2014, file photo, New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson sits on the sideline before the team's NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in New Orleans. Visitation for Benson, who died last week, takes place Wednesday and Thursday at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. A private funeral service is set for noon Friday at St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

Visitation for Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson begins

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

File- This Dec. 19, 2009, file photo shows New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson walking on the field before the NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in New Orleans. Benson, a successful auto dealer who brought the New Orleans Saints their only winning seasons and the &quot;Benson Boogie,&quot; has died. Benson, who has also owned the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans since 2012, was 90. The NFL and NBA teams announced Benson’s death on Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Saints, Pelicans owner Tom Benson dies at age 90

By BRETT MARTEL - Associated Press

New Orleans Pelicans' Rajon Rondo, center, shoots against San Antonio Spurs' LaMarcus Aldridge (12) and Danny Green during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, March 15, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)

Aldridge, Murray help Spurs overcome Pelicans, 98-93

By RAUL DOMINGUEZ - Associated Press

New Orleans Saints' owner Tom Benson listens to a question before the start of the post position draw for the 142nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Benson's G.M.B. Racing has two starters in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, Mo Tom and Tom's Ready. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)

Tom Benson, Saints owner, dies at 90

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Hamilton County residents overwhelmingly voted for a half-percent sales tax increase and municipal bonds to pay for Paul Brown Stadium to keep the Bengals from leaving Cincinnati, but the deal hasn't been good for taxpayers. (Associated Press/File)

NFL stadiums cost taxpayers billions of dollars

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Spokesman: Saints owner Benson hospitalized as a precaution

Associated Press

Tom Benson now has a stadium named after him, with a statute

By BARRY WILNER - Associated Press

Saints owner Tom Benson to sell majority stake in TV station

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013, file photo, New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, right, waves with his wife Gayle Benson before an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in New Orleans. Benson and trustees for his estranged heirs have ironed out legal and structural sticking points of a settlement that has been in the works since last June, avoiding a federal trial that was scheduled to begin on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

Saints, Pelicans owner, spurned heirs, reach settlement

By BRETT MARTEL - Associated Press

New Orleans Pelicans and New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, left, watches from his suite with his wife, Gayle Benson, during the first half of the Pelicans' NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Saints, Pelicans owner Benson says he wants quick exam

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk around the entrance of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Friday, July 22, 2011 in Canton, Ohio. Although the NFL announced Thursday, July 21, the cancellation of the annual Hall of Fame Game between the Chicago Bears and the St. Louis Rams, the enshrinement will go ahead as plannned. Deion Sanders, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter, Ed Sabol, Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, and Marshall Faulk represent the Class of 2011 who will be enshrined on Aug. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/The Repository, Scott Heckel)

Saints owner donates $11 million to Hall of Fame

By Tom Withers - Associated Press

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees walks across the field after the Saints lost 37-34 in overtime to the Atlanta Falcons in an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Audit: State pays high lease rates to Saints owner

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

Saints say Benson is “fine” after fall at meetings

Associated Press

Saints owner Tom Benson has minor knee surgery

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, New Orleans Hornets NBA team owner Tom Benson speaks at a news conference announcing that the NBA basketball team's name will change from the Hornets to the Pelicans, in New Orleans. One of the people most responsible for bringing NBA All-Stars back to the Big Easy this weekend is an 86-year-old man who wasn't that into basketball for much of his life. He is Tom Benson. And in New Orleans, NBA fans and community leaders are grateful the Pelicans owner finally came around. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

In New Orleans, Benson gets All-Star treatment

By BRETT MARTEL - Associated Press

Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant (24) high fives teammates with center Jordan Hill (27) after an NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Hornets and the Los Angeles Lakers in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. The Lakers won 103-87. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Kobe Bryant eclipses 30,000; Lakers beat Hornets 103-87

By Brett Martel - Associated Press