Priest guilty in tax case

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

A Roman Catholic priest who founded an alcohol and drug rehab center in Ohio has pleaded guilty to dividing $1 million into 139 deposits to avoid a requirement that deposits over $10,000 be reported to the federal government.

The Rev. Samuel Ciccolini, 68, of Akron, also pleaded guilty Friday in Cleveland federal court to avoiding $129,432 in taxes in 2003 by under-reporting his income by $300,000.

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