A Massachusetts monk claims “insidious lies” about him being a fake cleric led the feds to bring multimillion-dollar COVID-relief fraud charges against him — which were later dismissed — but his church and reputation never recovered, new court papers show.

Rev. Father Andrew Bushell, an Orthodox Christian monk at St. Nicholas church, sued the Department of Justice, FBI agents and the town of Marblehead, Mass., after arresting him under false pretenses in 2022 for allegedly carrying out a $3.6 million fraud scheme — only to toss out the charges a year later, according to a federal lawsuit filed last Friday.

He and his attorney Tracey Stockton were accused of blowing the funds on $40,000 in antique furniture, $90,000 in audio video system equipment, $40,000 in Swiss watches, a $7,000 Goyar

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