Judge Allows

Priest To Delay Prison Term

 NEW HAVEN (AP) — A federal judge has granted a Darien priest, convicted of embezzling more than $1 million from his parish, a fifth delay in starting his three-year prison sentence.

The Reverend Michael Jude Fay was scheduled to report to prison August 6. But Judge Janet Bond Arterton on Tuesday postponed that until September 3. Fay is the former pastor of St John Roman Catholic Church and served at St Rose of Lima Parish in Newtown from 1977 to 1986.

Fay, who has prostate cancer, requested the delay to allow more time for the Bureau of Prisons to determine whether it can give him a new cancer drug.

Thee US attorney’s office did not oppose the request.