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	Church Leader Accused of Misusing Trust Funds Examiner January 7, 2009 http://www.examiner.com/a-1780046~Church_leader_accused_of_misusing_trust_funds.html COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Map, News) - Authorities say a pastor who is part of a theft investigation used money from a church trust fund to pay for his two children's college education. A Colorado Springs police detective said in an affidavit released Tuesday that the Rev. Donald Armstrong may have misappropriated $392,000 from a Grace Church trust fund. Police took financial documents and computers from the Grace and Episcopal Church in November after an 18-month investigation. Armstrong is accused of taking funds from Grace and St. Stephen's, the congregation he headed before he and his followers broke away in early 2007 to affiliate with the Convocation of Anglicans in North American. After the split, the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado recommended that Armstrong be defrocked and that he could no longer officiate in the Episcopal Church in the United States. Police are still investigating the case and have not yet turned it over to prosecutors. Armstrong's attorney, Dennis Hartley, declined comment Tuesday. After the raid on the church, Hartley said investigators would find out there was no case against Armstrong, noting that the Internal Revenue Service had investigated him for a year and a half and discovered nothing.
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