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Catholic Priest Arrested for Stealing $100K from Church to Pay His Grindr Hookups<\/b><\/p>\n

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Monsignor Joseph McLoone, a Catholic priest in Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with 18 counts including felony theft for stealing $98,000 from his church parishioners to pay his Grindr hookups, and buy a beach house.<\/p>\n

PhillyMag reports<\/a>: \u201cInvestigators claim that McLoone opened a secret checking account in 2011 and diverted parishioner donations into that account and misappropriated other church funds undetected for the next seven years. According to prosecutors, McLoone used the funds to pay for dinners, travel, and a beach home in Ocean City, New Jersey. Investigators say that when he was confronted by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia about the money, he also admitted to paying for \u201cpersonal relationships\u201d with other men<\/a> with the church funds. According to the police complaint filed in court, McLoone sent thousands of dollars to men<\/a> he met on the social networking app Grindr using online payment methods such as Square and J-Pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

PennLive reports<\/a>: \u2018On Nov. 2 of that year \u2013 his first All Souls Day holiday there \u2014 McLoone opened an account with TD Bank called the \u201cSt. Joseph Activity Account.\u201d Over the next six years, he diverted donation checks written to the parish to that account. He also used the account to take the entirety of the All Soul\u2019s collections each year and convert checks written to St. Joseph\u2019s into checks made out to himself and others within the parish. McLoone created this account to hide the funds from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and ensure no one saw that he was using the funds for his personal lifestyle.\u2019<\/p>\n

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