Church Assistant Guilty of Embezzling
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 16--RALEIGH -- A woman pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling money from a Raleigh church and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.
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A priest who gave thousands of pounds to a friend who used it to groom a young girl is convicted of facilitating a child sex offence.
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By Dan Springer, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 6--A Hudson, Wis., man who pleaded guilty in August to charges he helped his wife burglarize 22 churches in western Wisconsin was given the same sentence Tuesday that his wife received a year ago.
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Three former leaders of an Islamic charity were convicted on federal tax and fraud charges in Boston yesterday for using tax exemptions to hide support for religious militants and alleged terrorists overseas.
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A preacher was convicted Monday of stealing nearly $9 million from hundreds of small black churches across the country that were promised hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for small investments.
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Â· Woman convicted of letting pupils see sex adsÂ· Ruling follows campaign by computer experts
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A federal judge fined a Vatican official &#36;15,000 Thursday but spared him prison time for his role in the insurance scam of disgraced financier Martin Frankel.
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OMAHA, Neb. - A 36-year-old Omaha man accused of luring women to his home and taking urine samples when they thought they were applying for a job was found guilty Thursday of two counts of criminal impersonation.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - U.S. Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for arranging a marriage between an unwilling 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old first cousin in 2001.
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Two Roman Catholic priests allegedly   misappropriated more than $8 million from their church and   spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on real estate, travel,   rare coins and girlfriends, police in Florida said on Friday.
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A jury of Methodist ministers yesterday expelled a Pennsylvania woman from the Methodist clergy after convicting her of breaking church law by living openly as a lesbian.
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BUTTERWORTH: A priest was yesterday charged with molesting a woman who had trusted him to rid her of bad luck.  S.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."
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A Kentucky businessman was found guilty Thursday of election fraud for orchestrating a scheme to buy votes from impoverished mountain residents in two races in 2002.
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A Montrose couple were among six people convicted in a Seattle court Monday in connection with one of the largest fraudulent tax-shelter scams ever prosecuted.
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A fraudster who worked as a forensic psychologist without any qualifications is convicted of deception.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 13 -- A Catholic priest was convicted Wednesday of taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by ordering militiamen to set fire to a church and then bulldoze it while 2,000 people seeking safety were huddled inside.