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PLEADS GUILTY â Monsignor Kurt Kemo, former vicar general of the Diocese of Steubenville, listened to proceedings Wednesday in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court.
â Michael D. McElwain
STEUBENVILLE Monsignor Kurt Kemo, former vicar general of the Diocese of Steubenville, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Jefferson Common Pleas Court to pocketing nearly $300,000 in diocesan funds.
Kemo, 64, was sentenced to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center followed by six years of community control two years for aggravated theft by control without consent of funds intended for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, aggravated theft by control without consent of diocese funds and receiving stolen property.