The whistleblower also said in her email that she had walked in on the pair in bed together on several occasions.
It was claimed that the money came from the poor box in the church and the profits from a charity shop that the parish runs. In 2012, the whistleblower added, the priest and his 'master', spent $60,000 on 'illicit and prescription drugs'. In her email she said that Crist had told her that Fr Miqueli, 52, enjoyed $300 bottles of Scotch and would pay Crist $1,000 an hour for the sex sessions that would take place at a white brick ranch house in New Jersey that she alleged was bought in cash from funds embezzled from the church. Parishioners say that they had made numerous complaints to the office of Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York before the archdiocese began an investigation into the conduct of the 52-year-old priest.Īlleged details of Fr Miqueli's conduct began to emerge after the former girlfriend of Crist told the New York Post newspaper that she emailed Cardinal Dolan earlier this year, with details of Fr Peter Miqueli's alleged activities.
A priest from the Archdiocese of New York who has been accused by his parishioners of stealing as much as $1 million from his parish to pay for gay sex with a bodybuilding 'slave master' called Keith Crist and illegal drugs has stepped down as pastor of St Frances de Chantal in the Bronx.
