Blue Springs church employee embezzled more than $400,000 | The Kansas City Star

A longtime employee at a Blue Springs church embezzled $446,000 over the past seven years, the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph said Tuesday.

The employee, who had served St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church for decades, was confronted by an internal investigation team last week and has agreed to pay the funds back, said diocese spokesman Jack Smith.
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The parish used a checkbook system from which checks were torn out and an accounting stub was left in the book. The employee was writing checks to herself, then entering the names of various vendors on the stubs, Smith said.

Though the employee worked at the church for decades, the false checks occurred only during the past seven years, Smith said.

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