Trial Pushed Back for Detroit Priest Charged with Defrauding Archdiocese Charity

By David Muller
MLive
July 1, 2014

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/07/trial_pushed_back_for_detroit.html

Father Timothy Kane, 57, of Detroit

A trial for a priest and an alleged accomplice accused of scheming a charity for money has been pushed back to September.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday the jury trial of Father Timothy J. Kane, 57, of Detroit, and accomplice Dorreca M. Brewer, 34, has been adjourned from July 7 because of a scheduling conflict. The trial is now scheduled to begin Sept. 29, before Judge Bruce Morrow.

Kane and Brewer are charged with conspiracy to operate a criminal enterprise, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison; using a computer to commit a crime, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison; uttering and publishing, a 14-year felony; conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing, a 14-year-felony; embezzlement between $1,000 and $20,000, a 10-year felony; and conspiracy to embezzle between $1,000 and $20,000, a 10-year felony.

Kane is the former associate pastor of St. Gregory the Great and Church of Madonna, both in Detroit; as well as St. Benedict in Highland Park. In February of 2012, Kane was reassigned as a Christian service contractor at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. In July of 2013, he became the Parochial Vicar to St. Moses the Black Parish.

The pair are accused of filing the false applications over a period of four years between 2008 and 2012.

dmuller@mlive.com