WPTV
February 17, 2009
http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story/Priest-accused-of-stealing-trial-continues/1I6pObEvIUaaSLtecDn2-A.cspx
WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- For two hours prosecutors read off credit card charges and checks written and cashed by Father Frank Guinan and held against accounts at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Del Ray Beach.
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And in each case, the Diocese' chief financial affairs officer said they were not authorized.
From restaurants to airline tickets to hotels to cigar shops the good times rolled...
But, was Guinan spending *his own money* or money taken out of the collection plate...
In the morning session a former church bookkeeper suggested he was quarreling away the cash.
"He said put 4000 dollars in an envelope and lock it in a drawer", said Apple Woo.
"When I asked him how I should keep a record of it, he said don't worry, Ill take care of it"
Guinan was also, say prosecutors writing big checks to another former bookkeeper who was his steady travel companion.
Why would Guinan, whose every expense was covered. Who was extremely comfortable financially, steal from his own parisoners?
His attorney says he did not and that the Diocese never had a handle on the huge cash flow passing through St. Vincent Ferrer.
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