Michigan priest found guilty of stealing $780K from retired priests

DEWITT, Mich. (FOX 2) – Last week, a jury found a Michigan priest guilty of stealing from retired priests while running a retreat center. Attorney General Dana Nessel said David Rosenberg, 72, was the director of the Lansing Catholic Diocese’s St. Francis Retreat Center in DeWitt, a property that includes housing for retired priests, between 2015 and 2021. During this time, he embezzled about $780,000 from three priests who lived at the retreat until their deaths. The Diocese of Lansing identified the victims as Fr. Benjamin Werner, Fr. Joseph Aubin, and Fr. Kenneth McDonald.

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