Ain't buying it

(CNN) -- To his congregants, he lived the humble existence of a pastor. But a high-flying Connecticut priest was charged this week with first-degree larceny in the theft of almost $1.3 million from his church's coffers to fund a lavish double life that included swanky hotels and male escorts.

Father Kevin Gray, 64, a former pastor at Sacred Heart Church in Waterbury, allegedly embezzled money from the church over the course of seven years. Along with expensive taste, Gray allegedly kept company with a number of male escorts, and allowed some to have credit cards in their names.

One escort, Islagar Labrada, allegedly charged more than $49,000 to the account.

Another man, Weirui Zhong, who told police he met Gray in Central Park in 2005, said Gray paid for his rented apartment in New York, a piano, dogs and Harvard University tuition since 2008, according to the affidavit.

Zhong told authorities that when he pressed Gray about why he was always paying him with checks from Sacred Heart Church, Gray told him that he won big cases as an attorney, and that he put all his live savings into the church account. --


Now wait just one second. Is anyone buying the story that "Weirdo" Zhong is selling here? It's not like Father Gray had some elaborate scheme like Madoff. The guy is writing you checks from Sacred Heart church for chissakes.

I wish people would just tell the truth and say yeah I thought it was fishier than a softball locker room but the guy is freaking footing my 50K tuition bill, who am I to mess with a good thing.

Also, cut the crap on meeting Father Madoff in central park. The only way you two met in central park is if it was in one f the realst areas. Let's just call a spade a spade Zhong. You were fishing for a sugar daddy, likely in the bathroom of one of those swanky hotels Father Gay (typo, I swear) was frequenting and now you got to deal with the cavity. Don't insult is with this innocent victim routine. As a wise man once said, Barbaric!