MICHIGAN
Macomb Daily
By The Associated Press
POSTED: 08/25/15
A guilty plea appears likely in the case of a Detroit-area Catholic priest accused of conspiring to steal nearly $700,000 from his church.
A court filing shows a change-of-plea hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 1 in Detroit federal court.
The Rev. Edward Belczak is charged with conspiring with a parish administrator to take money from St. Thomas More church in Troy. The indictment says he helped himself to $110,000 from a church account to pay for a Wellington, Florida, condominium.
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