Former top Diocese of Manchester official under investigation …

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord Monitor

Former top Diocese of Manchester official under investigation for ‘improper financial transactions’

By BEN LEUBSDORF
Monitor staff
Monday, May 6, 2013

A priest who was the public face of the Diocese of Manchester during a damaging sex abuse scandal is being investigated for “improper financial transactions” involving church funds, the diocese said yesterday.

Monsignor Edward Arsenault, who was a senior official of the Roman Catholic Church in New Hampshire from 1999 to 2009, is being investigated by both the diocese and the attorney general’s office after a church review “discovered evidence suggesting improper financial transactions by Msgr. Arsenault involving diocesan funds,” the diocese said in a news release.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said church officials approached the attorney general’s office about two weeks ago, and a criminal investigation is under way.

She said the office is working with investigators from the state police and the FBI but declined to comment on any possible charges.

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