Police: FL Pastor’s Wife Embezzled $165K From Church

Mobile’s CBS affiliate reports:

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement charged a woman with grand theft after a Milton Church was defrauded out of $164,716.

Lisa Michelle Hively, 55, was charged with one count of organized schemes to defraud and one count of grand theft. Hively was arrested after investigators opened up an investigation into the finances of Faith Baptist Church and Faith Bible College.

Agents discovered Hively would write checks from the church or Bible College and deposit them into her personal bank account. An estimated 232 checks from FBC and Faith Bible College were made out to Hively and her husband, who was assistant pastor of the church at the time of the thefts.

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