Volunteer Church in new Jersey stole thousands of dollars of Church funds and spent it on their wedding and hundreds of online shopping.
43-year-old Taisha Smith-De Joseph is accused of embezzling more than $561 000 St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Florence.
According to the statement of the Prosecutor of Burlington County, in addition to her wedding, a woman from Willingboro used that money to pay the rent, credit card debt, and bills for cables and mobile phones.
According to officials, Smith De Joseph, which was responsible for the oversight of the finances of the Church, stealing from the Church Fund for at least five years.
Over the years the imaginary volunteer paid DISH Network and Comcast over $8 thousand, about $840 5 she spent on clothes from ASOS.com; and over $15 000 was used to cover auto loans.
According to the Burlington County Times, through Amazon, she made more than 800 purchases totaling $22 800 and about 3000 transactions in PayPal for more than $266 thousand.
Taisha Smith-De Joseph. Source: Burlington County Prosecutor»s Office
Investigators discovered that Smith De Joseph opened several Bank accounts for the Church. She then created fake monthly statements to hide the true means of the Church, and then transferred money to other accounts to use them for personal purposes.
Overall, she embezzled $561 777.
