Former priest investigated in church embezzlement

WISCONSIN
WTMJ

[with video]

By James Kust
CREATED SEP. 4, 2013

WAUWATOSA – Hundreds of dollars towards the Western Racquet Club, over a thousand dollars to a florist, and $57,000 worth of checks written to a Bank of America account. Those are just some of the expenditures Father James Dokos is suspected of spending from a trust fund that was intended to be used for charity.

“Yes those are checks the church council doesn’t believe were spent for church purposes,” said David Feiss, an attorney with the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office, “But we need to investigate that further.”

Word that her former pastor of Annunication Greek Orthodox Church is suspected of theft was shocking to Nikoletta Mitchell.

“I was very surprised because he said that someone had donated to him.”

Father Dokos was the sole trustee of a fund left by a wealthy donor.

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