A Maryland man was sentenced to five years of supervised probation after being convicted of willfully filing a false Maryland tax return by failing to report $347,000 he stole from a church insurance payout.
Per the news release distributed on Wednesday, May 14: “Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced that Jerome Isaac Hurley, 44, of Pasadena, Maryland, was sentenced in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County for willfully filing a false Maryland State Tax Return. He was convicted of the charge on December 4, 2024. The Honorable Stacy McCormack sentenced Hurley to six months of incarceration, all suspended in favor of five years of supervised probation.
From 2017 until October 2022, Hurley was the Pastor at the Miracle Temple Church in Lothian, Maryland. In 2020, a fire occurred at the church parsonage and Hurley filed an insurance claim on behalf of the church. On March 20, 2021, the insurance company paid the church $350,000 for the claim. On March 31, 2021, Hurley stole $347,000 from the church and deposited the money into his personal account and used the funds for personal expenses…