By:  Lynn Green

Now wait a minute. Can somebody explain to me how a man who draws no salary is able to drive a $75,000 Jaguar and treat club hoppers to thousands of dollars worth of Dom Perignon—all while claiming that his liquor buying amounts to community “charity”?

As The News revealed Sunday, Malia is legend in clubland, where staffers report that he routinely drops tens of thousands of dollars in a single night.

He’s known to buy magnums of Dom Perignon, which cost as much as $25,000. One night in Chelsea, he treated 10 tables around him to champagne, a source said. The tab: $10,000.

“Everybody smiles when he walks in the door because in walks six figures,” one club impresario said.

The party-hearty priest – who does not draw a church salary as vicar of a part-time parish in Dundaff – said the reports were “exaggerated.”

He suggested his club jaunts were for charity and his business, a pharmacy that specializes in medicine for hemophiliacs like himself.

Once his bishop discovered his high rolling life, he was suspended. But I have some advice for the good bishop. Uh…follow this man around to find out who is giving him all this money. Sounds fishy to me.

And while he is spending money on alcohol in seedy night clubs, he needs to hold back and put that energy into finding time to spend with his two daughters:

He was reticent about his personal life, refusing to discuss his bitter 2005 divorce, his estrangement from his two daughters or his 1991 arrest for assault.

His estranged brother, Tim Malia, said he grew up in foster care and had a difficult childhood because of his hemophilia.

“He’s partying because he must be in a lot of pain,” he said. “I’ve watched him suffer from a little kid onward.”  SOURCE

Hat tip to Andrea for story lead