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There’s nothing wrong with booking stays in hotels.
There’s nothing wrong with a bonus for work well done.
There’s nothing wrong with taking flying lessons.
There’s nothing wrong with any of those items as long as you are able to pay for them with your own money.
Monsignor Kurt Kemo, the former vicar general of the Diocese of Steubenville, was reminded of that in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, when he admitted to diverting nearly $300,000 in diocesan funds for his own use, including the things mentioned above.
And, while stealing from his employer was bad enough, the money Kemo helped to divert had been donated to the church in good faith by its parishioners, including funds intended for various projects in the diocese and for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, an organization that serves missionaries and the poorest of the poor around the world. It also led to others who depended on the diocese for employment to lose their jobs and to auster
lharris@ehraldstaronline.com
MAKING CHANGES â The Diocese of Steubenville, was rocked by the discovery that a former vicar general and comptroller had diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for church projects and charitable endeavors into their own pockets. Bishop Jeffrey Monforton said it was âwas disappointing, it was discouraging â but at the end of the day, I have to remember what Iâm here to do as bish
STEUBENVILLE The past four years have tested the patience and faith of the 31,000 parishioners of the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville, still in recovery mode after the bishop’s second-in-command and a former comptroller stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in diocesan funds and dangerously understated its financial condition.
Staff writer
Michael D. McElwain
SIGNED â Former Diocese of Steubenville Vicar General Kurt Kemo, right, signs his guilty plea Wednesday in Jefferson Common Pleas Court while his attorney, Chris Amato of Wellsville, looks on. Kemo, 64, admitted diverting nearly $300,000 in diocesan funds for his own use. He made full restitution to the diocese during the proceedings.
STEUBENVILLE Monsignor Kurt Kemo, vicar general of the Diocese of Steubenville for well over a decade, bought expensive clothes, took flying lessons and booked hotel stays on his credit card.
On Wednesday, Kemo admitted in Jefferson Common Pleas Court he’d diverted nearly $300,000 in funds intended for various projects in the diocese, including charitable endeavors, to subsidize his extravagant lifestyle.
LISBON A New Waterford man who broke into his sister’s home in late 2019, will get the counseling treatment he was seeking, but he will await treatment wh