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	Priest in Chicago Financed Male Stripper Using Stolen Funds from Church By Kathy Henry All Headline News July 22, 2007 http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007976244 Chicago, Illinois - A Catholic priest who pleaded guilty Friday to stealing almost $200,000 from a church on the North Side of Chicago gave lavish gifts such as cars, plane tickets and thousands of dollars to a male stripper who worked at gay clubs in Chicago, according to law enforcement sources. The Rev. Mark Sorvillo was forced to resign from St. Margaret Mary Church in February 2006 after he was caught stealing from collection bags and in October 2006, he was charged with felony theft by state prosecutors. An investigation showed that he stole more than $40,000 from collection bags, wrote checks to himself and his creditors using church funds and charged more than $62,000 in purchases at ritzy department stores to the parish. The former stripper, James Sosnicki, married and living in Louisville told the Chicago Sun-Times that their relationship was never sexual and that he paid Sorvillo back. "He was like a big uncle to me," Sosnicki, 30, said. "If it wasn't for him, I'd probably be living in a cardboard box right now." Sorvillo's lawyer, Brian Collins, declined to comment.
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