LOWER MERION — The former business manager at a Bala Cynwyd church must answer to charges in Montgomery County Court that he embezzled more than $1.1 million from the church.
Sean Michael Sweeney, 60, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., was ordered to stand trial, after a preliminary hearing before District Court Judge Karen Eisner Zucker, on charges of theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, receiving stolen property, unlawful use of a computer, tampering with records and secure execution of documents by deception in connection with alleged incidents that occurred between 2017 and 2024 while he was business manager at Saint Matthias Catholic Church in the Bala Cynwyd section of Lower Merion.
Sweeney now faces a formal arraignment hearing on the charges in county court on Feb. 25. After that hearing, a county judge will set Sweeney’s trial date…