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An old check allegedly exposed decades of lies.
For nearly 28 years, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper was the principal at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, Calif, a coastal suburb southwest of Los Angeles. Around the same time that Kreuper announced she was retiring earlier this year, a family at the school asked for a copy of an old check they had written to St. James. When staff members found the check, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported, they realized it had not been deposited into St. Jamess account but a different bank account.
That was among the first clues that would unravel a vast fraud that was allegedly conducted by Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang, another nun and longtime St. Jamess teacher. School officials recently told parents the two nuns had stolen about $500,000 from the school. The school said the two women, reportedly best friends, used the money for trips and casino visits.
We do know that they had a pattern of going on trips, we do know they had a pattern of going to casinos, and the reality is, they used the account as their personal account, Marge Graf, an attorney representing St. James, told a group of parents at a meeting last Monday night, according to the Beach Reporter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/two-nuns-stole-trips-las-vegas-church-doesnt-want-them-prosecuted/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4cbbe7f40cb9
BeyondGeography
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(26,546 posts)Yavin4
(35,438 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,579 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,579 posts)bdjhawk
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mokawanis
(4,440 posts)I would have advised them to play the percentages and stick to blackjack.
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)A lot of the tables have been converted to Texas Hold'em Poker.
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Think about it!
pintobean
(18,101 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)But seriously guys, when you're a Person of the Cloth I don't think you're supposed to be rolling the dice in the first place.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)Well, that and over pregnancy tests.
hunter
(38,311 posts)The jokes write themselves.
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)how this went on for so long given the dire straights of the parish. I guess their thoughts and prayers didn't make the cash reappear.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)for some reason, I don't feel too bad about this.