NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Melissa Grace AND Corky Siemaszko / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, January 30, 2012
A church bookkeeper was busted Monday for breaking the Eighth Commandment in a huge way by stealing more than $1 million from the Archdiocese of New York, officials said.
Mild-mannered Anita Collins pulled off the scam by billing the church for non-existent services and funneling the dough into accounts she controlled, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. …
Adding insult to injury, this is not the first time Collins has been accused of embezzling funds.
Collins’ rap sheet lists two arrests for larceny before she began working eight years ago at the archdiocesan headquarters on First Ave. in Manhattan, sources said.
Church officials, however, had no idea of Collins’ crooked past because she wasn’t required to undergo a criminal background check, sources said.
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