'Meth' Priest Left Told Followers He's Leaving to 'Make Money,' Says Source
By Chelsia Rose Marcius and Daniel Beekman
Pastor Kevin Wallin, 61, who could face life in prison for his alleged role in a cross-country methamphetamine ring, resigned from St. Augustine’s Parish in Bridgeport in June 2011, citing health and personal issues, church officials said this week. The "Meth Monsignor" busted for selling drugs after his kinky behavior got him suspended by superiors told his Connecticut flock he was leaving “to make more money,” a parishioner told the Daily News Saturday. Pastor Kevin Wallin, 61, who could face life in prison for his alleged role in a cross-country methamphetamine ring, resigned from St. Augustine’s Parish in Bridgeport in June 2011, citing health and personal issues, church officials said this week. But Wallin, who worked as a personal secretary to Edward Cardinal Egan for years when Egan was Bishop of Bridgeport, told parishioners a different story, one said. “He said he was moving, being transferred,” recalled parishioner Bernedine Jordan, 52, a substance abuse counselor. “He said he really liked it here but he was going to somewhere where he could make more money.” Wallin’s money-making plan, according to federal prosecutors, was a drug operation that stretched from Connecticut to California. And sources told the Connecticut Post Wallin may have laundered drug money through an adult video store he owned. Church officials called Wallin “compassionate” and “gifted” after his indictment Tuesday. But the pastor — who dressed in women’s clothes and had sex in the rectory, according to Connecticut Post sources — was just the opposite, Jordan said. “He was not a humble person,” she said. “He had a personality problem. He was very overly aggressive and he had anger. When I heard about the drugs, I was not too surprised. I thought, no wonder he was always angry."
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