ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune
By Clifford Ward
Special to the Tribune
A priest working at a factory to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars he stole from his parish and then gambled away heard some straightforward counsel today from a judge: Don’t quit your day job.
DuPage County Judge John Kinsella ordered the Rev. John Regan to continue working at his low-wage job, which Kinsella mandated as part of Regan’s 2011 sentence on theft charges.
Regan and his attorney appeared before the judge Thursday, seeking court approval for Regan to return to full-time ministry work and quit his $9-an-hour job in a Joliet air filter factory.
Attorney Jack Donahue said Regan could earn twice as much as a priest, and, therefore, could more quickly make restitution.
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