Southside St. Adalbert’s Church former Pastor Mauricio B. Fernandez-Boscan, 42, originally from Venezuela is scheduled for a plea-sentencing hearing on April 11 for embezzling more than $33K from the St. Adalbert’s Catholic Church credit card and checks without having any authority to do so. Fernandez-Boscan was criminally charged on February 6, 2025 with three misdemeanor counts of theft business setting under $2,500 each.
If convicted, Fernandez-Boscan is facing up to 9 months in prison and up to $10,000 in fines, or both for each count. Fernandez-Boscan remains free on a $500 signature bond.
According to the criminal complaint, between 2018 to 2022, Fernandez-Boscan used the St. Adalbert’s Church credit card to unlawfully charge $20,715.42 of unauthorized and inappropriate expenses for buying a Central Saw and Mower at a cost of $3,383.51, spending at Best Buy a total of $1,406.96, for airline charges to take a trip to Mexico at a cost of $2,156.48, Floor and Décor expense of $2,410.50, for Vision Works $529.95, Saint Francis de Sale Seminary expense of $2,350.00, and taking a trip to Italy costing $8,478.02. He used the parish credit card to pay for his own personal bills totaling $4,689.23. Fernandez-Boscan also wrote several checks for his personal expenses using the parish financial account for $8,153.94 (used to pay the Chenhalls Nissen SC law firm for legal immigration services), totalling up to $33,558.59 of expenses.
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