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A former employee of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has been arrested for stealing more than $150,000 from a diocesan scholarship fund and now faces up to 20 years in prison.

Bishop James Johnston Jr., who leads the Missouri-based diocese, wrote a letter to the faithful announcing that “In recent days, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri issued a sealed indictment and executed an arrest warrant for Jeremy Lillig, a former employee of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, who left his position with the diocese in October 2023.”

“The charges claim Mr. Lillig engaged in wire fraud in excess of $150,000 in his capacity as director of Bright Futures Fund,” Johnston wrote.

According to the charity’s website , the Bright Futures

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