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	Prison Date Delayed for Disgraced Darien Priest Fay Must Report to Prison by May 19 By Donna Porstner The Advocate March 28, 2008 http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ci_8729006 The priest convicted of stealing $1 million from his Darien church doesn't have to report to prison for another seven weeks, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton delayed the date the Rev. Michael Jude Fay, former pastor of St. John Roman Catholic Church in Darien, begins serving his three-year prison sentence until May 19. Fay, who has prostate cancer, had been scheduled to surrender this coming Wednesday April 2 but sought a delay to allow him to continue participating in a clinical trial for an experimental drug at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. His attorney, Lawrence Hopkins of New Haven, argued Fay would not live long enough to finish his sentence if he is not allowed to complete the clinical trial. Chemotherapy treatments worsened Fay's condition, the attorney said in court papers filed earlier this week. Prosecutors argued against the delay, saying Fay's victims - St. John's parishioners - had waited long enough for justice because the priest began embezzling in 1999. Fay used the money to buy airline tickets, designer clothing, limousine rides and to eat in the best restaurants, according to credit card records obtained by The Advocate and an audit commissioned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport. The judge ordered Fay to turn over his medical records to the Bureau of Prisons. She denied Fay's request to seal court papers he filed in an attempt to delay his surrender date, saying he made his medical condition part of the public record during his sentencing in December.
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