Today, Jake Freudberg reports on a former church administrator who was sentenced to prison for stealing from the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Pittsfield. Plus, are you ready to set your clocks back an hour? Your body might not be.
Pittsfield church’s former administrator sentenced for $49K embezzlement
Michael Mooney, 54, is to serve at least two years in prison and pay back the amount he admitted to stealing from the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House.
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