ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune
By Alexandra Chachkevitch and Lisa Black
Tribune reporter
1:21 p.m. CDT, June 19, 2014
The Rev. James Dokos, leader of Glenview’s Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church, will be charged with felony theft in the alleged mishandling of a trust fund at a Milwaukee church, said David Feiss, assistant district attorney for Milwaukee County.
Authorities have concluded a monthslong investigation and will file a charge against Dokos of Class G felony theft, alleging he misappropriated an amount of money exceeding $10,000, Feiss said.
The Tribune reported in October that documents the newspaper obtained showed that Dokos, while serving as pastor of Annunciation Church Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee, wrote checks to himself totaling tens of thousands of dollars from a trust fund provided to the church, and that he used the fund to pay at least $32,000 in credit card bills. The documents included copies of cancelled checks and banking records from the trust fund.
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