ST. JOSEPH (AP) — A church treasurer in southwestern Michigan has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after more than $40,000 in church funds was reported missing.
The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph reports that Cecily Cogswell-Finehout, 34, of Benton Harbor also was ordered last month to pay $42,055 in restitution for embezzling from the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Coloma, where she was treasurer for two years.
Some checks from church members were cashed but no records kept that they were received. Cogswell-Finehout told authorities she had been writing unauthorized checks to herself from the church's bank account.
She says she used the money to help pay her bills.
- Posted July 13, 2017
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
Church treasurer gets jail after more than $40,000 missing
headlines Macomb
- Toasting three decades of success
- Court rules absentee ballots with mismatched or missing stubs can’t be counted
- Man sentenced for arson, first-degree animal torture/killing
- St. Clair Shores man arraigned for intentional threat to commit act of violence against a school
- Nessel files reply calling for full public hearings on DTE’s data center application
headlines National
- The business of successfully running an in-house department
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Justice Gorsuch writes children’s book about ‘Heroes of 1776’
- Companies use ‘deceitful tactics’ to market harmful ultra-processed products with ‘addictive nature,’ city’s suit alleges
- Lawyer accused of trying to poison her husband
- ‘Lawyers Gone Wild’? Filmmaker criticizes bar as he seeks ethics probe of serial killer’s daughter for alleged lie
