Embezzeling Darien Priest Seeks Delay of Jail Term
NEW HAVEN, Conn (AP) -- A Darien priest will be in New Haven federal court for a hearing on when he should report to prison for embezzling $1 million from his parish.
The Rev. Michael Jude Fay was sentenced in December to 37 months in prison. He has sought to delay the start of the jail term [Darien Times] while he undergoes an experimental cancer treatment that his attorney says is not available in prison.
Lawrence Hopkins, Fay's attorney, says Fay will die behind bars if he cannot complete his treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Prosecutors had asked Judge Janet Bond Arterton to require Fay's doctor to testify about whether the treatment could be provided in prison and why a six-month delay in reporting to prison rather than one month is necessary.
Arterton has ruled that Fay should report to prison on May 19.
Fay was due in court Tuesday.
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