The priest & the stripper. $200,000 STOLEN FROM PARISH 'He gave me money for spending time with him'

[Ian David]

July 22, 2007
BY ERIC HERMAN Staff Reporter/[email protected]

The Rev. Mark Sorvillo loved taking his parish's money and spending it on himself. Trips to Rome, Venice, Paris. And $900 meals at New York restaurants.

In 1999, Sorvillo found someone else to lavish his parishioners' collection-plate donations on -- a male stripper.

Sorvillo -- who pleaded guilty Friday to stealing nearly $200,000 from St. Margaret Mary parish on the North Side -- gave cars, plane tickets and thousands of dollars in cash to James Sosnicki, a married Louisville man who stripped frequently at gay clubs in Chicago, law enforcement sources said.

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Sorvillo resigned from St. Margaret Mary in February 2006 after parishioners caught him stealing from the collection bags. He had been under suspicion since threatening to close the church's school because of the parish's strained finances. An investigation revealed he skimmed more than $40,000 from collections, wrote checks from parish accounts to himself and his creditors, and charged more than $62,000 at Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's and Marshall Field's to the parish. In October 2006, prosecutors charged him with felony theft.

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The Rev. Mark Sorvillo (left) lived the high life by skimming collections. "He was like a big uncle," James Sosnicki (right) says.
(Jon Sall/Sun-Times)

More:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/478428,CST-NWS-priest22.article

[aquart]

1. At least it wasn't an altar boy.

[rocktivity]

2. ..

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[DeSwiss]

3. I'm sure he'll confess his sins and will soon be good as new!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. "He was like a big uncle"

Your Shudder Material for the day.

Ugh gak, and blech :puke:

MAN do I feel the need to go shower. :scared:

[Kingshakabobo]

5. Hey, I think that stripper got ME for 5 bucks! Two timer! n/t