NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Public Radio
[with audio]
By JOSH ROGERS
Things started to go bad for Monsignor Edward Arsenault in May, when he stepped down as President of the St. Luke Institute, a priest treatment center in Maryland.
Arsenault quit the job – and its $170,000 salary — when prosecutors announced an investigation into misuse of church finds and an improper adult relationship.
Prosecutors say between 2005 and March of last year, Edward Arsenault stole thousands of dollars from the Manchester diocese, the Catholic Medical Center and the estate of another priest.
From 1999-2009 Arsenault was Chancellor at the Manchester Diocese, and its public face during the diocese’s clergy sexual abuse settlement with the state.
In the agreement announced by Attorney General Joseph Foster and US Attorney John Kacavas, Arsenault will admit to 3 class A felonies.
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