A Mass. priest is charged with stealing $100K from his church. Right here’s what he allegedly purchased.

A Western Massachusetts priest is accused of stealing greater than $100,000 in parish funds and utilizing the cash on purchases that included video video games and wine, the Northwestern District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned.

Tomasz J. Gorny, 43, a former parish priest on the Immaculate Coronary heart of Mary Church in Granby, has been charged with stealing funds over a interval of three years, the DA’s workplace mentioned in a press launch. 

Gorny allegedly spent the cash on objects for his private use, together with energy instruments, a driving mower, meals, wine, automotive equipment, video video games, and clothes.

The Amherst resident is accused of charging the bills to bank cards that the Springfield Diocese in the end paid, and the DA’s workplace mentioned Granby police recovered a whole bunch of things from an Easthampton storage unit in April. The Diocese of Springfield had been conducting an inside audit into suspicious use of church funds and notified Granby detectives, based on the discharge.

Gorny was scheduled for arraignment in Jap Hampshire District Court docket Friday morning on a cost of larceny over $1,200. It was not instantly clear whether or not he had retained an lawyer.