PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
Updated: Monday, September 14 2015
By: Maria Miller
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Prosecutors say they have dozens of cancelled checks totaling thousands of dollars that a Central City priest wrote to himself to pay for trips overseas to abuse young boys.
During the third day of trial, the jury heard from a man who attended Father Joseph Maurizo’s church in the mid-1990s and started helping with his missions.
Richard Bossler testified he paid his own way for trips to Honduras where he eventually became a sponsorship coordinator. His main job: collecting money and gifts locally to bring overseas for the orphaned children.
Prosecutors also asked him about money, specifically dozens of checks, that he cosigned.
Checks he said Maurizio would write to himself from his charity or church to reimburse himself for trip expenses when he returned. $1,000 in cash or more each time.
But those checks, prosecutors said, were in addition to checks Maurizio would cash ahead of his trips for advance funds.
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