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	Priest Pleading Guilty in 500g Embezzle By Dan Mangan New York post December 8, 2011 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/priest_pleading_guilty_in_embezzle_HR6viddtNC4bmmmnKSeQnK The ex-pastor of a wealthy Connecticut parish — who resigned in 2007 after an audit found he spent more than $500,000 in church funds on meals, travel and other questionable items — is set to plead guilty today to a federal obstruction-of-justice charge, The Post has learned. The Rev. Michael Moynihan’s guilty plea in New Haven federal court involves allegations that he mislead federal investigators probing the missing money at St. Michael the Archangel parish in Greenwich, sources said. The Catholic priest’s lawyers, Mark Sherman and Audrey Felsen, declined to comment. The Bridgeport Diocese in 2007 revealed that Moynihan, 58, had used $185,000 to pay off personal credit-card bills, which included $32,000 for meals; almost $19,000 for travel, and another $13,000 on equestrian training. Another $44,000 went to people who did not work for the parish. The money came from a secret bank account containing parish funds that Moynihan had set up. In 2008, Moynihan was suspended as a priest and fired as a chaplain at SUNY Maritime College in The Bronx after The Post revealed he had long lived in a pricey, one-bedroom Midtown apartment with a man who was the former children’s-choir director at St. Michael the Archangel. Moynihan previously was banned by the diocese from associating with the man, actor-singer Michael Fawcett.
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