There’s nothing wrong with booking stays in hotels.
There’s nothing wrong with a bonus for work well done.
There’s nothing wrong with taking flying lessons.
There’s nothing wrong with any of those items as long as you are able to pay for them with your own money.
Monsignor Kurt Kemo, the former vicar general of the Diocese of Steubenville, was reminded of that in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, when he admitted to diverting nearly $300,000 in diocesan funds for his own use, including the things mentioned above.
And, while stealing from his employer was bad enough, the money Kemo helped to divert had been donated to the church in good faith by its parishioners, including funds intended for various projects in the diocese and for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, an organization that serves missionaries and the poorest of the poor around the world. It also led to others who depended on the diocese for employment to lose their jobs and to auster
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Feb 11, 2021
While the long process of receiving justice for the thousands of Catholics who live in the Diocese of Steubenville moved another step closer to being resolved Monday, there are still questions that must be answered.
A big step in that direction happened Monday, when David Franklin, the former comptroller of the diocese, entered into a plea deal in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court.
The list of illegal activities committed by Franklin is long, and includes falsification, theft of funds and the defrauding of creditors. And for all of that, Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Michelle Miller sentenced the 69-year-old Franklin to 18 months in state prison and ordered him to pay $532,115 in restitution. The first 366 days of his sentence will be spent in federal prison, time he received in July after admitting to embezzling nearly $300,000 during a nine-year period that started in 2008.