Boy Scouts selling NY campgrounds to help pay settlement with abuse victims

The Boy Scouts have put three of their New York campgrounds up for sale to help cover the $850 million they just agreed to pay sex-abuse victims, a new report says.

The Boy Scouts of America agreed last week to shell out the whopping sum to about 60,000 victims in its ongoing bankruptcy case, with the national organization contributing $250 million and the local councils covering the remaining $600 million. Now at least one council in New York has listed three campsites — one each in Rockland, Dutchess and Putnam counties — for sale to try to pay its portion of settlement funds, according to a Lohud report.