NEW YORK
Patheos (blog)
July 13, 2020
By Barry Duke
BACK in 2015, a lawsuit was launched against New York priest Rev Peter Miqueli that alleged he’d stolen nearly $1 million to pay a male prostitute for kinky S& M sex and buy a house in Ocean County. This led to a flurry of lurid headlines and photos linking him with a rent boy named Keith Crist.
Now it’s being reported that Miqueli, 57, who resigned in 2015 as pastor of St Frances de Chantal parish in Throggs Neck, was found dead at his home last week.
Two years after the lawsuit was launched by 14 St Francis parishioners, an investigation by the church found no evidence of him having stolen that amount, and no action was taken by the police.
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