Defrocked, ex-con priest who stole $300K heads NYC nonprofits with city contracts
Posted on AllSides March 11th, 2023
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A defrocked, ex-con priest who was a diocesan spin doctor at the height of the Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal now heads a pair of New York City nonprofits which have raked in millions in taxpayer cash. Edward Bolognini, who used to be a high-ranking New Hampshire holy man named Edward Arsenault, pled guilty in 2014 to stealing some $300,000 from a Catholic hospital, his diocese and a dead priest’s estate. Among the monsignor’s sins was lavishing some of the pilfered cash on his lover — musician Luke Parkin —...