NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY
Ashbury Park Press
Karen Yi and Erik Larsen, @Erik_Larsen December 11, 2015
BRICK – A New York City Catholic priest is accused of embezzling nearly $1 million in church donations to pay a male prostitute and buy a $264,000 home here for the two of them to live in, according to a lawsuit filed by parishioners.
The complaint, filed Thursday in the Supreme Court of New York, alleges the Rev. Peter Miqueli funneled church money for his personal use which included paying a prostitute $1,000 a session to act out his “sexual fantasies.” The prostitute, identified as Keith Crist in court papers, engaged in a bondage-sadism-masochism relationship in which he role-played as the “sexual master” and made Miqueli the “slave,” the complaint states.
Miqueli, a pastor at St. Frances De Chantal parish, could not be reached for comment.
The lawsuit also names the Archdioceses of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Crist, and seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. The Archdiocese did not return a request for comment. Crist could not be located for comment.
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