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TexasTowelie

(116,592 posts)
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:52 AM Mar 2021

Pennsylvania church treasurer stole $150,000, spent it on porn, cops say

He found some exxxcess funds.

A Pennsylvania church treasurer stole $150,000 of the church’s money and spent it on porn, police said.

Cops said Glenn Yothers, 56, swiped the money from St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Latrobe, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

Investigators said Yothers transferred the money to his personal account and then spent it on a site called “Flirt For Free,” which was evidently not free, according to the Tribune-Review.

Yothers admitted to stealing the money and told police he was lonely at home during the day while his wife worked, the paper reported. Other church members became suspicious after the congregation’s utilities were shut off in 2019.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-church-treasurer-stole-money-for-porn-pennsylvania-20210310-63b5t5bt5bavvl7b2mjbih4miq-story.html

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Pennsylvania church treasurer stole $150,000, spent it on porn, cops say (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
Flirt for Free which was evidently Flirt for Fee. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2021 #1
You could flirt for free but it cost you to get down and dirty. dem4decades Mar 2021 #5
So it's the working woman's fault BeyondGeography Mar 2021 #2
He was lonely at home during the day while his wife worked Demobrat Mar 2021 #3
Technically not porn. Online sex workers. Girard442 Mar 2021 #4
A real conservative. Didn't want that free stuff. rickford66 Mar 2021 #6
How stupid do you have to be to pay for it? Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #7
Local TV news (Pittsburgh) reported this last night FakeNoose Mar 2021 #8
Auditors are expensive. twodogsbarking Mar 2021 #9

FakeNoose

(35,570 posts)
8. Local TV news (Pittsburgh) reported this last night
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 09:49 AM
Mar 2021

I think this was the WPXI channel 11 news I had on. They interviewed this guy and he said he felt sorry for the online sex workers and he "donated" money to the website in order to "help" them. He felt he was making charitable donations to the porn website in order to help the workers. (!)

This is either a very clever defense concocted by his lawyer, or else it's the silliest reason for stealing church funds that anyone has ever heard. This guy needs to be in jail, and probably be divorced and lose his house too.

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