NEVADA
National Catholic Reporter

Jul. 13, 2012
By Joshua J. McElwee

The person responsible for representing the concerns of Nevada Catholics at the state’s capital has resigned following NCR inquiries about his pleading guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice, a federal felony, and serving three years’ probation.

John Cracchiolo, the executive director of the Nevada Catholic Conference, resigned his position at the conference “sometime in the last few days,” the chancellor of the Reno diocese said Friday.

In the last week, NCR asked the Reno and Las Vegas dioceses, Nevada’s only two dioceses, about Cracchiolo’s role at the conference after learning he had accepted a federal plea deal in 2009 stemming from charges that he was part of a plan to defraud investors during his time as the chief financial officer at a publicly traded medical device company in California.

According to court documents, Cracchiolo remains…