NEW YORK
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — An Archdiocese of New York clerk has been arrested on charges of manipulating the church’s accounts payable system to steal more than $1 million in education money.
Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling said Monday that Anita Collins wrote checks to herself or a relative but recorded them as payments to legitimate vendors.
The archdiocese says its staff and outside auditors spotted the theft and alerted prosecutors.
Collins has a prior grand larceny conviction from 1999. She was sentenced to community service and five years’ probation.
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