Posted on 08/21/2004 10:02:45 PM PDT by B4Ranch
Diocese ex-CFO to get same job in Columbus COLUMBUS (OH) Cleveland Plain Dealer
Friday, August 20, 2004 James F. McCarty Plain Dealer Reporter
The deposed chief financial officer of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese has a new job as the next CFO of the Diocese of Columbus.
Joseph Smith resigned from the Cleveland diocese in January under a cloud of suspicion, accused of accepting more than $750,000 from an accounting firm he had hired to work for the diocese.
The FBI is investigating the payments, and the diocese's insurance company reportedly has filed a claim against Smith to recoup the money - neither of which apparently deterred the Columbus diocese from hiring him as its new finance director.
A Cleveland diocesan official said the Columbus diocese was made aware of the criminal investigation, as well as the circumstances of Smith's leaving after more than 20 years of employment in the state's largest diocese.
"No recommendation concerning employment was requested, and none was provided," said spokesman Bob Tayek, reading from a news release.
Few people involved were willing to talk about Smith's hiring when contacted Thursday.
The Catholic Church needs to see the light of reality. They are a business that is causing their own bankruptcy and church members are allowing it to occur.
Why?
Good question. I guess they're in the habit of moving problem employees to other parishes, instead of banning them from working in the church.
Maybe they ought to think real hard about outsourcing. There are millions of good practicing Catholics in South America.
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