Friday, August 24, 2007
IN THE CONTINUING CLEVELAND DIOCESAN SOAP OPERA...
A former accountant for the Cleveland Catholic Diocese testified Thursday that his business partner, Anton Zgoznik, routinely inflated bills and doctored invoices submitted to the diocese.
Zgoznik is on trial in U.S. District Court for charges related to what prosecutors say was a kickback scheme with the diocese's former chief financial officer, Joseph Smith, who will stand trial later this year.
During his second day on the witness stand, Zrino Jukic said the diocese paid him and Zgoznik $17.5 million over five years. Many of those payments were based on falsified billing receipts, Jukic said.
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Ok, if the bills were inflated and the diocese is innocent of corruption, why did the diocesan accountants pay the inflated bills?
