Personally, I don't think this is a big deal. We had a monsignor who ran a raffle every year when we had our annual bazzar fund raiser. No one ever knew the winner of the raffle. After a while, the adults figured out what was going on. Everyone still bought tickets and laughed when the winner was declared at midnight on Saturday.
The bigger problem is that Fr. Robert loaned money to parishioners, who in turn donated it back to the Parish in order to get matching funds from large corporations such as Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson.