Priest Fined in Conn. Insurance Scam
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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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A Roman Catholic priest is being held in Phoenix on charges that he assaulted a woman who worked at his Las Vegas church.  A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Maricopa County to determine whether the Rev. George Chaanine will waive extradition from Arizona to Nevada.
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A Roman Catholic priest from New York's borough of Queens pleaded guilty on Thursday to possessing more than 600 images of child pornography, the U.S. attorney's office said.
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By Matt Gryta, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Dec. 19--s The former office manager of St. Christopher Catholic Church in the Town of Tonawanda remained in jail Monday after prosecutors agreed to let her try to post $20,000 bail in a six-figure church embezzlement case.
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.    Cornelius Horan was convicted by a misdemeanor court of violating Greece's laws on extracurricular sports for knocking Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd on Sunday...
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The globe-trotting priest from Connecticut drove a Jaguar, shopped at Bergdorf Goodman and bought jewelry from Cartier, all of it with money stolen from his church's coffers. By the time the parish finance council caught on, he had embezzled $1.3 million.
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DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. - Two Episcopal priests face possible punishment from the church after it was discovered that they were leaders of a local society of Druids, people who follow a pre-Christian practice of worshipping the sun and venerating the Earth.
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An apologetic Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to prison for stealing more than $800,000 from his parish to finance vacations, country clubs and fancy clothes.
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Insurance firm Norwich Union is fined Â£1.26m for exposing some of its customers to identity fraud
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Officials said that a former St. John's player received cash from an employee in violation of N.C.A.A. rules. Two years of sanctions will be imposed on the men's program.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A former Roman Catholic bishop has been indicted on child rape charges in Massachusetts. Prosectutors are accusing Thomas Dupre (doo-PRAY&#39;) of molesting two boys in the 1970s while he was a parish priest.
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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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The Archdiocese of Boston has received at least 140 new reports of sexual abuse by priests, but said it will not negotiate the claims until it resolves disputes with its insurers over payment of last year's &#36;85 million settlement.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 30, 2004 - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.
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Bishop Thomas Dupre, the former head of the Springfield Diocese, was indicted Monday on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said. He becomes the first Roman Catholic prelate indicted in the sex abuse scandal within the American church.
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The man who disrupted the men's marathon at the Athens Olympics was defrocked as a Roman Catholic priest Thursday.
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A grand jury has charged a former  Massachusetts bishop, Thomas Dupre, with raping two children in  the 1970s, a state court said on Monday, in the first such  action against a high-ranking member of the U.S. Roman Catholic  Church.