NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Chelsia Rose Marcius AND Daniel Beekman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The “Meth Monsignor” busted for selling drugs after his kinky behavior got him suspended by superiors told his Connecticut flock he was leaving “to make more money,” a parishioner told the Daily News Saturday.
Pastor Kevin Wallin, 61, who could face life in prison for his alleged role in a cross-country methamphetamine ring, resigned from St. Augustine’s Parish in Bridgeport in June 2011, citing health and personal issues, church officials said this week.
But Wallin, who worked as a personal secretary to Edward Cardinal Egan for years when Egan was Bishop of Bridgeport, told parishioners a different story, one said.
“He said he was moving, being transferred,” recalled parishioner Bernedine Jordan, 52, a substance abuse counselor.
“He said he really liked it here but he was going to somewhere where he could make more money.”
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