FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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BALTIMORE, MD – Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced
that Jerome Isaac Hurley, 44, of Pasadena, Maryland, was sentenced in the Circuit Court for
Anne Arundel County for willfully filing a false Maryland State Tax Return. He was convicted
of the charge on December 4, 2024. The Honorable Stacy McCormack sentenced Hurley to six
months of incarceration, all suspended in favor of five years of supervised probation.
From 2017 until October 2022, Hurley was the Pastor at the Miracle Temple Church in Lothian,
Maryland. In 2020, a fire occurred at the church parsonage and Hurley filed an insurance claim
on behalf of the church. On March 20, 2021, the insurance company paid the church $350,000
for the claim. On March 31, 2021, Hurley stole $347,000 from the church and deposited the
money into his personal account and used the funds for personal expenses.
When Hurley filed his 2021 income tax return, he failed to include the $347,000 in income. This
resulted in his failure to pay $33,595.05 in taxes to the State of Maryland.
On March 11, 2025, Hurley pleaded guilty to theft in a separate case prosecuted by the State’s
Attorney’s Office for Anne Arundel County related to the theft from the church.
In making today’s announcement, Attorney General Brown thanked his Criminal Division,
specifically Division Chief Katie Dorian, Fraud and Corruption Unit Chief Alex Huggins, and
Assistant Attorney General Warren Davis, who prosecuted this case. Attorney General Brown
also thanked State’s Attorney for Anne Arundel County Anne Colt Leitess for assisting with this
prosecution.
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