BY TIM WILLERT twillert@opubco.com
EDMOND — The former business manager at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, who is accused of embezzlement, resented the former pastor and thought he should have been paid more for work on a 2010 lawsuit, according to court documents.
Bill Dwight Coyle, 62, of Edmond, was charged Monday in Oklahoma County District Court with eight counts of violating the state's computer crimes act.
Coyle, who also was a church deacon, is accused of using more than $58,000 in church funds for his own personal gain, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with the charges.
A co-worker who reported the missing money told police investigators Coyle owed the church $58,341, a total that “had accumulated over many years.”
A church audit, however, stated that Coyle “appeared to benefit” from $78,795, not including $32,313 in purchases allegedly made by Coyle and his grandson with two church credit cards.
Coyle, the affidavit states, acknowledged during a February meeting with church officials that he spent $58,000 of church funds for his personal gain.
Coyle's canonical faculties were suspended at that time, the affidavit shows.
The co-worker, an accountant who worked with Coyle for more than a decade, said Coyle “was very negative toward (the Rev.
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