‘I have sinned’: Nun headed to jail after stealing $835K from L.A. school
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Mary Margaret Kreuper, the 80-year-old principal of a Catholic school in Los Angeles, was using donations and tuition to pay for her gambling addiction.
A California nun is heading to jail after she admitted to stealing more than $835,000 in funds from a Catholic school to pay off her credit card and gambling debts.
Mary Margaret Kreuper, 80, of Arlington Heights in Los Angeles, was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay $825,338 in restitution, reports CBS News.
She pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after stealing the money during the 10 years she worked as principal at St. James Catholic school.
She also admitted to embezzling donations and tuition to the school.
“I have sinned, I’ve broken the law and I have no excuses,” Kreuper said during her sentencing, according to The Guardian.
“My actions were in violation of my vows, my commandments, the law and, above all, the sacred trust that so many had placed in me.”
Kreuper said she had used some of the money to pay for vacations to Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, as well as “large gambling expenses incurred at casinos,” reports the Associated Press.
Her lawyer revealed that Kreuper had a gambling addiction and had been living under “severe restriction” at her convent for the last three years.
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