PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
JULIE SHAW, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER SHAWJ@PHILLYNEWS.COM, 215-854-2592
POSTED: Thursday, January 2, 2014
MONSIGNOR William Lynn has not been released from state prison in northeastern Pennsylvania yet, but life is looking rosier for him in the new year.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve posted $25,000, or 10 percent of his $250,000 bail, enough to free him.
But Lynn, the Archdiocese’s former secretary for clergy, still needs to have his electronic-monitoring system set up and may not be freed “until the end of the week or next week,” his attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, said yesterday.
The holiday meant “no one’s working,” Bergstrom said, so Lynn, who is at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart in Wayne County, will have to wait.
Lynn could be back in Philadelphia in time for his 63rd birthday on Sunday. Bergstrom said Lynn will stay in the city when he is hooked up with an electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet, but would not say specifically where Lynn will live.
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