In 1999, while serving as Cardinal Bernard Law's vicar general, auxiliary bishop William F. Murphy (later bishop of Rockville Centre NY) had signed a federal document certifying that he knew of no "adverse information" about Rev. William J. Scanlan that would render him unfit to work at a Veteran Affairs hospital in Palo Alto CA. At the time, Scanlan's archdiocesan file contained a 1987 allegation that he had "fooled around with kids." It also included a summary of a 1986 psychological evaluation that cited his infatuation with a young man. In 2000, the archdiocese received another allegation about Scanlan but did not inform the priest's supervisor at the Veteran Affairs facility.