Nuns accused of stealing $500K from church school to gamble in Las Vegas News. Posted: Dec 10, 2018 / 05:54 PM PST / Updated: Dec 10, 2018 / 05:54 PM PST. Nuns ‘steal' $500k to gamble in Vegas by Alexandra Klausner 12th Dec 2018 1:49 PM 0. TWO nuns who formerly worked at St James Catholic.
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Two nuns stole money from St. James Catholic School in California to fund gambling trips to Las Vegas. The school does not want to press charges, but the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said it will be a 'complaining party.'
Nuns Steal 500k
Two Catholic school nuns in California admitted to embezzling about $500,000 (€439,700) and using the funds for travel and gambling in Las Vegas, their order said Monday. Pulltube 0 11 3.
Sisters Mary Margaret Kreuper and Lana Chang took money from tuition, fees and donations at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, south of Los Angeles.
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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the missing funds were discovered during a routine audit and it is believed the nuns stole the money from the school over at least a decade.
Nuns Stole 500k
'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,' an attorney for the school told parents and alumni at a recent meeting, Californian daily newspaper The Press-Telegram reported.
Kreuper was principal at the school for 29 years until she retired earlier this year. Chang was a teacher for 20 years and also retired this year.
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Archdiocese to become complaining party
The school's pastor, Monsignor Michael Meyers, said the school did not want to pursue criminal proceedings against the sisters and that no other school staff were involved in the scheme, adding that police had been alerted to the situation.
While the archdiocese initially said it would not press charges in the case, an archdiocesan spokesman told French news agency AFP on Monday that the archdiocese would become a 'complaining party' in the case.
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The nuns allegedly got away with their crime by depositing some checks made out to the school for tuition and other fees into a different bank account than the one used by the school.
In a statement to AFP, the Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the nuns' order, said: 'The Sisters of St. Joseph both desire and intend to make complete restitution to St. James School.'
Meyers told parents in a letter dated November 28 that the nuns were cooperating with an investigation to determine the full amount of misappropriated funds. https://download-forum.medium.com/how-much-is-it-to-make-a-movie-ee793396bbd2.
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A priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia responsible for a retirement home for priests faces federal charges of embezzling more than $535,000 from that same home.
Msgr. William A. Dombrow, 77, was charged by the U.S. District Attorney in Philadelphia on April 5 with four counts of wire fraud in a scheme he is alleged to have devised to siphon off funds intended for care of retired archdiocesan priests at Villa St. Joseph, Darby, where he has served as the rector since 2005.
Catholic Human Services of the archdiocese operates the nursing care and residence for 50 retired and ill archdiocesan priests.
The District Attorney alleges that Msgr. Dombrow set up an account at Sharon Savings Bank in Darby unbeknownst to the archdiocese, directed money from the estates of retired or deceased priests as well as bequests of lay donors to Villa St. Joseph, and transferred money electronically for his personal use.
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Archdiocese to become complaining party
The school's pastor, Monsignor Michael Meyers, said the school did not want to pursue criminal proceedings against the sisters and that no other school staff were involved in the scheme, adding that police had been alerted to the situation.
While the archdiocese initially said it would not press charges in the case, an archdiocesan spokesman told French news agency AFP on Monday that the archdiocese would become a 'complaining party' in the case.
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The nuns allegedly got away with their crime by depositing some checks made out to the school for tuition and other fees into a different bank account than the one used by the school.
In a statement to AFP, the Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the nuns' order, said: 'The Sisters of St. Joseph both desire and intend to make complete restitution to St. James School.'
Meyers told parents in a letter dated November 28 that the nuns were cooperating with an investigation to determine the full amount of misappropriated funds. https://download-forum.medium.com/how-much-is-it-to-make-a-movie-ee793396bbd2.
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By Matthew Gambino • Posted April 6, 2017
A priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia responsible for a retirement home for priests faces federal charges of embezzling more than $535,000 from that same home.
Msgr. William A. Dombrow, 77, was charged by the U.S. District Attorney in Philadelphia on April 5 with four counts of wire fraud in a scheme he is alleged to have devised to siphon off funds intended for care of retired archdiocesan priests at Villa St. Joseph, Darby, where he has served as the rector since 2005.
Catholic Human Services of the archdiocese operates the nursing care and residence for 50 retired and ill archdiocesan priests.
The District Attorney alleges that Msgr. Dombrow set up an account at Sharon Savings Bank in Darby unbeknownst to the archdiocese, directed money from the estates of retired or deceased priests as well as bequests of lay donors to Villa St. Joseph, and transferred money electronically for his personal use.
The scheme is alleged to have begun in December 2007 and continued through May 2016. In a statement, the District Attorney charges that the priest 'had sole access' to the bank account, 'which was funded by gifts from wills and life insurance proceeds that were intended for the archdiocese.'
The federal charges detail four transactions allegedly directed by Msgr. Dombrow: a $10,000 check paid from a separate bank in 2013; a $25,000 check paid from an individual's estate in 2014; a $14,410 check paid from the estate of Father Francis Rogers, a deceased priest, in 2015; and a $10,000 check from a life insurance firm in March 2016.
Father Rogers, named in the 2005 Philadelphia Grand Jury report on child sexual abuse by clergy, died in February 2015 after living at the Villa since 1998, and for 12 years under its Prayer and Penance program.
Developed by the archdiocese in response to the clergy abuse scandal in Philadelphia, the program is designed to house archdiocesan priests, stripped of ministerial faculties, who have been found credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors.
In a statement April 6, the Philadelphia Archdiocese said Sharon Savings Bank alerted the archdiocese last summer to 'irregularities' about an account connected to the Villa.
'Upon review of information supplied by the bank, this account was immediately frozen,' said archdiocesan spokesman Ken Gavin. 'At that time, the matter was referred to law enforcement by the archdiocese and Msgr. William Dombrow's priestly faculties as well as his administrative responsibilities were restricted. Throughout the investigation, the archdiocese has cooperated fully with law enforcement.'
The FBI and the Darby Police Department cooperated in the investigation into the priest's alleged actions.
The District Attorney's office expects Msgr. Dombrow to plead guilty to the charges by the end of April. If convicted on all charges he faces a maximum of 80 years in jail plus fines, and three years of supervised release.
Msgr. Dombrow was ordained in 1970 for the archdiocese. He has served as pastor and parochial vicar at several archdiocesan parishes, chairman of the Archdiocesan Priests' Committee on Alcoholism and director of the Matt Talbot-Emmaus Institute in Philadelphia, a former program of the archdiocese.
