MINNESOTA
Winona Daily News
By Jerome Christenson(
A former employee of both the Diocese of Winona and Diocese of La Crosse is accused of stealing $116,000 from the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas while an employee there.
The Wyandotte County, Kansas, prosecutor’s office announced that 52-year-old Rose A. Hammes, of Kansas City, Kansas, has been charged with three counts of felony theft. She is jailed in Wyandotte County in lieu of $50,000 bond.
According to a statement from the archdiocese, the Wyandotte County district attorney’s office was notified last year after the archdiocese discovered “financial irregularities in April 2014. The archdiocese contacted law enforcement because it believed it was the victim of fraud and had suffered a sizable loss, in excess of $100,000.”
“The archdiocese remains in full cooperation with law enforcement authorities as this case moves forward,” said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, who invited “the prayers of Catholics of the archdiocese for the parties involved in the case.”
The archdiocese said it hopes to recover the loss through insurance. Additional details about the charges weren’t immediately available.
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