New Orleans police ex-lieutenant charged with embezzling almost $330,000 from Catholic church

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New Orleans police ex-lieutenant charged with embezzling almost $330,000 from Catholic church

BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS | STAFF WRITER SEP 25, 2020 - 5:05 PM
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Federal prosecutors have charged a former New Orleans police lieutenant with bilking a Roman Catholic church where he worked of almost $330,000, nine years after a peripheral role in the Henry Glover civil rights case cost him his job on the force.

Joseph Meisch, business manager of St. Patrick’s Church in the Central Business District, used credit cards belonging to the church to buy himself sporting goods and other personal items and transferred church money into his personal account for about three years beginning in July 2015, the U.S. attorney's office alleged. He also wrote unauthorized checks from the bank to himself and his security company and transferred money from St. Patrick’s PayPal account to himself, ultimately taking $329,856, prosecutors said in court documents.