Unbelievable assumption. Surely you don't mean that.
Instead of inferring that His Grace committed simony (money in exchange for a sacrament or an office in the Church) I think that the simple and real explanation is that he could have never imagined that Bishop Fellay would become the destroyer of the SSPX. Who could have imagined that back then, 25 years ago?
Indeed I don't mean simony, +Fellay never bargained / purchased his office, and ABL would never have done such a sin.
What I mean is :
re. ABL :
- one fact is that as he was building up the Society from scratch he often was in dire need of money (and things are very expensive in Switzerland), (e.g. check +TdM book)
- he intended only to consecrate +Williamson, +Tdm, +de Gallareta
- this swiss financial backer was influential in changing ABL's mind and having +Fellay additionally consecrated. I assume +ABL saw things like this : this good man and his Swiss friends have helped the Society so much and are still helping so much, and now he is begging for one of his countrymen as a further bishop, I cannot refuse that.
- both Mr. Lovey and +ABL didn't at any time realise they were making a mistake, they acted in all honesty and good faith.
Re. +Fellay and the people providing money to Mr. Lovey, I fear things may not be so nice. Now, 25 years later we can know :
- +Fellay has been betraying the Society for decades (G.R.E.C.), and does clearly not behave as he should
- the zionist Krah has been exposed
- and I know other things I can't put here re. the geopolitics of a given lobby
So it seems to me that the best explanations for all these things, with the hindsight we now have, are:
- M. Folley and ABL were tricked in a push to have +Fellay consecrated, who then worked on gaining all powers in the Society
- interestingly +Fellay was the one caring about the financial issues, before taking all power he could first develop a financial construction most suitable to his long-term schemes
- if +Fellay was pushed like this by financial backers, it is more reasonable to think that he was a mole right from the beginning than he later became soldout