PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Chicago Tribune
March 13, 2012
By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA, March 13 (Reuters) – The former chief financial officer of the beleaguered Archdiocese of Philadelphia surrendered to authorities on Tuesday to face charges that she
stole more than $900,000 from the church to pay her credit card bills.
Anita Guzzardi, 41, is accused of theft, forgery and other charges involving the archdiocese, the nation’s sixth-largest, which is less than two weeks away from the start of a high-profile pedophilia trial.
Monsignor William Lynn faces child endangerment charges, and a priest and a defrocked priest are accused of sexually abusing children between 1996 and 1999. Lynn would be the first high-ranking U.S. cleric to go on trial in a child sex abuse case.
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