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Thu 03 Mar 2009Second Irish Florida priest gets four years in jail for theft
THE SECOND of two Irish Catholic priests was sentenced to prison yesterday in a case involving the misappropriation of more than $8 million (€5.89 million) from a church in Florida.
Fr Francis Guinan and Fr John Skehan were accused in 2006 of skimming money from collection plates and bequests at their church in Delray Beach, Florida, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on real estate, travel, rare coins and girlfriends.
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