Thou shalt not steal

NEW YORK, Aug 12, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Detectives investigating Monsignor John Woolsey of New York for fraud have uncovered bank accounts with hundreds of thousands of dollars in his name.
Woolsey, who is now the subject of a criminal investigation, is also being sued by a parishioner who alleges the priest swindled him out of a half-million dollars, some of which he used to buy a luxury condo on the New Jersey shore.
Authorities recently discovered Woolsey maintains a $200,000 balance with Citibank and $450,000 with Smith Barney, the New York Post reported. In addition, a Queens contractor told the district attorney's office he billed Woolsey's church, St. John the Martyr, for $160,000 worth of construction and labor. Woolsey reported those bills as totaling $500,000.

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