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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 7, 2015 7:17 PM
By Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The federal trial of a Johnstown-area priest accused of traveling to Honduras for sex with young boys has been pushed back from next month to September and is expected to last four weeks or longer.
U.S. District Judge Kim Gibson on Friday ordered the trial of Rev. Joseph Maurizio, 69, delayed until the fall trial term in Johnstown.
The trial had been scheduled for March 9 but both sides said they needed more time to prepare.
The judge said the trial is expected to last three or four weeks, and possibly take a fifth week, because many of the witnesses don’t speak English and will need an interpreter.
Rev. Maurizio remains jailed pending trial as a danger to the community and a risk to flee, especially considering his apparent wealth. Although he told a pre-trial services officer that his net worth was $107,000, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division found that it was really about $1 million.
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