Former Employee Stole $400K From Diocese Of Rockville Centre: PD

EAST ISLIP, NY — A former Diocese of Rockville Centre employee was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing more than $400,000 over the course of three years, Nassau County police said.

Iris Gomez, 39, of East Islip, and former office administrator at the St. William the Abbot Roman Catholic Church, located at 2000 Jackson Avenue, of the Seaford and Diocese of Rockville Center, was charged with second-degree and third-degree grand larceny, police said.

According to police, detectives were notified of a female employee who had been generating fraudulent invoices payable to her consulting company for work that was never performed.

After a thorough investigation, police said they discovered that Gomez used a consulting company she had established to fraudulently bill both churches.

Since August, 2019, she had illegally taken more than $400,000 from the churches, police said.

She will be arraigned on Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead.