A Los Angeles nun who stole more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit has been sentenced to a year in federal prison
Highlights
- Mary Margaret Kreuper, 80, admitted to stealing the money from 2008 to 2018 while she was principal at St.
- James Catholic School in the LA suburb of Torrance.
- She pleaded guilty last July to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering.
- Judge Otis D. Wright II also ordered Kreuper to pay back the school approximately $835,000 as restitution.
- “I have sinned, I’ve broken the law and I have no excuses,” Kreuper said via teleconference in a phone call from prison.
- ‘My actions were in violation of my vows, my commandments and the sacred trust that so many had placed in me,’ she said.