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	Rodis to Be Arraigned on New Fraud Charges By Tom Campbell Times-Dispatch September 6, 2007 http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/policebeat.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-09-06-0176.html The Rev. Rodney L. Rodis is due in federal court this afternoon for arraignment on new charges that he stole more than a half million dollars from his Louisa County parishioners. Until last month the retired Catholic priest was headed for trial in Louisa Circuit Court on 13 counts of embezzlement. Those state charges have been dropped by the Louisa County prosecutor. The U.S. District Court grand jury that indicted Rodis on Aug. 21 accused him of transferring $515,231 in embezzled money to addresses in the Philippines, which is Rodis' homeland. The federal indictment carries 13 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. Federal prosecutors are taking over the Rodis case in part because the federal court is better equipped to recover stolen money from other nations, authorities said.
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