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Police: Conn. priest stole $1M for male escorts
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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press Writer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – The Rev. Kevin J. Gray was a popular priest who appeared to live humbly, forgoing a car and walking to Mass from another parish where he lived so that a Catholic charity could use his space at the rectory. Parishioners thought he had cancer and admired how he helped immigrants in his largely poor parish in Connecticut.
But after a routine audit of the church’s finances turned up discrepancies, authorities began a criminal investigation that they say unraveled a secret double life of male escorts, strip bars and lavish spending on the finest restaurants, luxury hotels and expensive clothing, financed with money stolen from the parish.
“About a million,” Gray told authorities without hesitation when asked how much he took from the church account, according to his arrest affidavit.
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