Catholic fundraising exec went to jail over embezzling from health system affiliated with nuns, now raising money for religious order

Michael Gerrity, seen in a fundraising pitch for the Augustinian order of Catholic priests. (YouTube)

Michael Gerrity went to jail over $250,000 embezzled two decades ago from a hospital charity near Buffalo, New York, that he’d been running and that was affiliated with a group of Catholic nuns, according to prosecutors, who said he spent some of the money on vacations.

Now, he’s working for a Catholic religious order, the Augustinians, as its chief fundraiser for the Chicago region.