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Former Pennsylvania Priest Charged with Misappropriating Over $740,000
Just the facts
Prosecutors from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office alleged that Gregory Allen Madeya misappropriated nearly $320,000 from Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church and related donors starting in 2018. Investigators stated that Madeya fraudulently withdrew nearly $250,000 from his elderly mother's financial accounts while acting as her caretaker. Court filings detail additional allegations, including the sale of a church's gold chalice to a local jeweler for $19,440 and the unauthorized purchase of a $35,000 vehicle using church funds. Madeya waived his preliminary hearing in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, sending charges of financial exploitation, theft, and dealing in unlawful proceeds directly to trial.
Why this is news
Pennsylvania law enforcement authorities arrested and charged 69-year-old former Ukrainian Catholic priest Gregory Allen Madeya for allegedly misappropriating over $740,000 from religious organizations and his mother. Law enforcement officers took Madeya into custody in Vero Beach, Florida, before extraditing him to Pennsylvania to face felony charges.
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