 During his tenure, the scandal of Rudolph Kos, a pedophile priest of the Dallas Diocese, came up.Bishop Grahmann and his predecessor were held not to have investigated the allegations against Kos and of trying to cover things up.On July 10, 1998 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas settled their appeal of a $120 million court verdict and agreed to pay $23.4 million to eight former altar boys and the relatives of a ninth who had claimed they were sexually abused by Kos.