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By: Tom Beyerlein – Staff Writer
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati on Monday sued a former business manager, Thomas “Shaun” Martin of Mason, alleging he stole more than $353,000 from three Hamilton County parishes over a period of years.
Spokesman Dan Andriacco said the archdiocese has been “working closely” with county prosecutors, but Martin has not been criminally charged. “We felt it was time to move on with our part of it, the civil part,” Andriacco said of the lawsuit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
Martin, who is no longer employed by the archdiocese, is accused of embezzling the money while he worked for Holy Family, St. John the Evangelist and St. John the Baptist parishes in separate stints over a number of years. He worked consecutively at five Hamilton County parishes since 2000. Andriacco said the investigation “came about because of irregularities that turned up in one parish that caused us to look at others.”
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