Posted on 05/19/2006 11:15:02 PM PDT by Panerai
A priest charged with embezzling more than $800,000 from two Cape Cod churches will go to trial on July 31, authorities say.
Attorneys for the Rev. Bernard Kelly and prosecutors agreed on the date at a brief meeting in Barnstable Superior Court on Friday morning.
Kelly is charged with using funds from St. Joseph's parish in Falmouth and Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet for his personal use.
The Diocese of Fall River estimated that Kelly misused more than $800,000 of church funds.
The diocese sued Kelly, and the sides agreed to a $1.3 million settlement last year. But Kelly so far has been unable to sell his lavish home in the Cummaquid section of Barnstable to raise money to play for the settlement.
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Thank God he's a regular crook looking to rip-off little old ladies 'n such.
It's almost a relief.
he's unable to sell his lavish home to pay the settlement. why isn't he in jail?
Well...they do always get the best veal in Italian restaraunts...
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