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Detroit Free Press
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By Jim Schaefer and Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press Staff Writers
Someone has been very good to Detroit’s poor people.
That someone — and he is a man, that much was confirmed — has donated $17 million since 2005 to help less fortunate people through the Archdiocese of Detroit and the “Angel Fund.” This person’s money paid for necessities like rent, medicine and overdue utility bills for those who cannot afford such things.
If someone donated $17 million to a local college, that person might well have a stadium named after him.
But the “Angel” does not want to be known.
“It’s an anonymous donor,” said Msgr. Michael Bugarin, an archdiocesan official, adding that the donor’s philanthropy was known to his family. “It’s extraordinary, the level of generosity this family has gone through since the inception of the Angel Fund.”
But now, just several weeks after the Angel Fund’s existence was publicly revealed because of alleged fraud by a Detroit priest, the Free Press has learned the fund is ending April 30.
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