Sentence For Stealing Lots of Money
allen griggs
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Some of y'all were saying that the disgraced lawyer probably wouldn't get much jail time. Looks like you are right. Look at this case, a nun stole $825K from a Catholic school, and she got just one year in jail. Supposed to pay restitution, how is she going to that, 80 years old and unemployed.
Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, of Los Angeles, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day for fraud and money laundering charges. The 80-year old nun also was ordered to pay a total of $825,338.57 in restitution for the money she embezzled while she was a principal at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, Calif.
Prosecutors said Kreuper, who was the school’s principal for 28 years, diverted funds to pay for expenses that her order — the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet — would never have approved, including large gambling expenses from casino trips and credit card charges she made from 2008 to September 2018.
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What a good example she was!!!!
Joe
I would bet her favorite beer was Miller High Life
yeah, but wait until years later on and she gets to meet the Boss.....
Political affiliation is now a huge factor in crime and punishment. Some can go unpunished for far worse crimes because of their political affiliation. IE: Hunter Biden, Learner, Comey, Holder, Cuomo brothers: List is mind boggling.
What is equally disturbing is a complicit media (Yeah the same media that used to look out for us) either not reporting or operating a protection racket for these crooks based on political affiliation.
Look at the differences between Watergate and the Russian Collusion Hoax if you doubt me.
No way to pay back all that money?? Then she should at least get back what she doled out all those years in school! 😁
The Lord will provide,turn the other cheek,heaven help ya if ya steal from the pope😇
She would have never even gone to court if she was a pedophile. The church would have just moved her to another parish where she could continue abusing little kids.
I am surprised she went to court
Click on the name of the Criminal Sister in the OP. Apparently there were 2 of them:
Church officials said they did not wish to press charges against the sisters, who both expressed remorse. Police will still present the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, NBC reported.
“Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Lana have expressed to me and asked that I convey to you, the deep remorse they each feel for their actions and ask for your forgiveness and prayers,” Meyers wrote in a letter to parents on Nov. 28.
“They and their Order pray that you have not lost trust or faith in the educators and administrators of the school. Let us pray for our school families and for Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Lana,” the letter added.
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One trick about that sentence. A person sentenced to one year Federal serves 365 days. A person sentenced to one year and a day is entitled to 54 days of "good time." If the sister is well behaved she will get out 54 days early. And she will definitely go to a "country club" prison, called a Federal Prison Camp.
Many of the family on my dads side were caught make moonshine.For some reason they were sentenced to 364 days,instead of a year, in Atlanta Federal for illegal distillary
There you go. The judge sticking it to them, to make sure they didn't get the 54 days off.
I saw no mentioning above of a Federal sentence, only of the LA County DA's Office presenting the case so it must be a State charge they're facing not a Federal ( doubtful Feds want to touch it ).
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
3 Hail Mary's and no beer for a year.
Maybe not that much money, but embezzling happens pretty often at places and a lot is never reported. Just happened at a local Church as the person had a drug habit.
Most people that embezzle don't do it because they are starving or need it for a good cause.
Happened here at a local church some years back . Pastor and the secretary,/ bookkeeper ran off to South America with all the money .
Was book keeper on a couple churches yrs ago. I would not take over the books until an audit was completed. They found a lot of missing money. Finally the tracking found a Deacon had sticky fingers. Nothing was said . I would write a check to the visiting Priest who said mass right after church. Some parishioners complained to the Diocese . However I got both churches out of the red so they could stand on their own without Diocese money for support. Mission accomplished.
Perhaps the Pope could or would bail the sisters out. I have heard stories of the immense wealth held by the Vatican.
Time to watch The Godfather part III again. 😁
I didn't post the entire article. It is Federal.
nypost.com
A disgraced nun who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Los Angeles Catholic elementary school and went on Vegas gambling sprees will be reciting her penance from inside a federal prison cell.
Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, of Los Angeles, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day for fraud and money laundering charges. The 80-year-old nun also was ordered to pay a total of $825,338.57 in restitution for the money she embezzled while she was a principal at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, Calif.
Prosecutors said Kreuper, who was the school’s principal for 28 years, diverted funds to pay for expenses that her order — the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet — would never have approved, including large gambling expenses from casino trips and credit card charges she made from 2008 to September 2018.
Kreuper, who apologized to the community during Monday’s sentencing, also made a Hail Mary plea to the judge for leniency.
“I have sinned, I have broken the law, and I have no excuses,” Kreuper said during Monday’s hearing, according to the LA Times.
Assistant US Attorney Poonam Kumar told The Post that the wayward nun took frequent gambling trips to Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Temecula and other locations throughout Southern California. Kreuper even took fellow nuns on some of those excursions and spent thousands of the elementary school’s money, Kumar said.
“One of the things she said when she was first confronted by the LA Archdiocese and even before law enforcement got involved was she did it in part because she believes priests get paid better than nuns,” Kumar told The Post.
While Kreuper spent the school’s funds on gambling trips, the former principal continued to ask parents to donate more money to the school on top of their $6,000 annual tuition.
“This was really an abuse of position of trust, right,” Kumar said. “She was the principal. She was running the school that these parents had chosen to send their children [to], and not just for the academics. Many of the letters I cited … and many of the people who spoke, talked about wanting something more from their children’s education.
“They wanted to get a Catholic education with the morals and values that they believed in and that they lead their lives in, and that’s what they were looking for in the school. So there were a considerable number of parents who were very upset and obviously feeling quite betrayed. There were parents who spoke today about how their kids are no longer affiliated with the church.”
Kreuper pleaded guilty to the charges in July and also admitted she falsified monthly and annual reports to the school administration, and told employees to cover up her fraudulent conduct.Kumar said Kreuper was able to dodge detection for so many years because she would divert tuition checks and other funds to two old bank accounts that other school administrators were not aware were still being used. While other checks were being cashed properly and accounted for, the crooked nun deposited other checks in the secret bank accounts before they were even accounted for by staff.
“She basically was able to keep them secret and the school administration was never the wiser that there were these extra funds that she was taking,” Kumar told The Post.
Kumar added Kreuper’s scheme was revealed after the school performed an informal audit shortly after the nun announced she would be retiring as principal in 2018. It was then that Kreuper started to get nervous and told two employees to destroy documents and directed them to not mention to the auditors that certain documents were missing.
The employees then reported Kreuper to the monsignor of the parish, Kumar said.
Kreuper claimed she took the money because nuns didn’t get paid as much as priests at the church.
Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
Prosecutors asked for a sentence of two years, but US District Judge Otis D. Wright II said during Monday’s sentencing that he also struggled to find the proper sentence for the nun, and even said she was “one heck of a teacher.”
Somehow the mental image of a nun leaning over the craps table trying to make her point.............head explodes
They do go without their attire to public places.
we had the head of the local recreation embezzle flat out $250000.00......it took several years before JUSTICE was served...he received a month jail time and repay of $40.00 a month ............tell me crime does not pay ???????
Crooks sometimes don't look or act the part. An employee at a local bank embezzled close to a half million dollars. I worked at that bank a few years ago a know some of the employees there. A couple sharp gals I knew working there had to know this was going on, but did not want to get involved. Her husband and her were buying a lot of land and taking lots of trips. The husband played dumbazz like he did not know anything when SHTF.
She got 41 months in a halfway house and most of the money has never been recouped and will never be.
https://www.timesnews.net/news/local-news/peoples-bank-of-ewing-employee-accused-of-embezzling-nearly-500-000/article_406fca8c-d80f-5187-bdd9-4e17a69d41a9.html
Some of y'all were saying that the disgraced lawyer would not see jail time, and it looks like you are right. He only stole $335K.