Monk sues DOJ for falsely accusing him of stealing $3.6M in COVID-relief funds to buy Swiss watches, expensive wine
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A Massachusetts monk claims “insidious lies” about him being a fake cleric led the feds to bring multimillion-dollar COVID-relief fraud charges against him — which were later dismissed — but his church and reputation never recovered, new court papers show. Rev. Father Andrew Bushell, an Orthodox Christian monk at St. Nicholas church, sued the Department of Justice, FBI agents and the town of Marblehead, Mass., after arresting him under false pretenses in 2022 for allegedly carrying out a $3.6
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