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Thu Jul 6, 2017, 09:20 AM Jul 2017

Okemos priest accused of embezzlement could lose $1.4 million home

Local prosecutors have filed paperwork to seize the home of a priest charged with stealing from his Okemos parish.

The June 26 filing lists Rev. Jonathan Wehrle’s more than $1.4 million home in Williamston and a vacant parcel nearby as subject to civil forfeiture.

Chief Assistant Ingham County Prosecutor Lisa McCormick said the paperwork provides legal notice that the property is part of a criminal complaint and is subject to civil forfeiture.

Wehrle has not been convicted of a crime.

“If there’s no criminal conviction then you do not proceed on the forfeiture,” McCormick said.

Read more: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/07/05/okemos-priest-accused-embezzlement-could-lose-home/444124001/

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