Florida News - February 18, 2009

Florida News - February 18, 2009
021809 MET Guinan Photo by Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post 0061408C [WITH STORY BY SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL]--- WEST PALM BEACH Ñ Renee Wardrick (cq) looks at deposit slips (held by the prosecutor) she said she fabricated to show to the diocese while bookkeeper at St. Vincent Ferrer in order to hide the cash. She said the original deposit slips werre shredded. She was testifying in the trial of the Rev. Francis Guinan in Palm Beach County court Wednesday. Guinan is on trial charged with one count of grand theft over 00,000 for allegedly bilking St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach. Delray Beach police charged The Revs. John Skehan and Guinan in September 2006 with stealing offertory money from St. Vincent Ferrer, and allegations arose that Skehan - and much later Guinan - had mishandled more than million over decades. 02/18/09