Nuns improperly took as much as $500,000 from Torrance Catholic school

St. James Catholic School in Torrance on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. An internal investigation at the school found that two nuns who worked there allegedly misappropriated a “substantial” amount of funds for personal use over a period of years, the school announced recently. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG)
By Megan Barnes | mbarnes@scng.com | Long Beach Press-Telegram
PUBLISHED: December 5, 2018 at 7:22 pm | UPDATED: December 6, 2018 at 6:00 am
Two longtime nuns at St. James Catholic School in Torrance allegedly embezzled as much as $500,000 in tuition, fees and donations, perhaps spending some of the money on trips and gambling at casinos while telling parents the school was operating on a shoestring budget, officials and parents said.

The figure represents only what auditors have been able to trace in six years’ of bank records and might not include other cash transactions, officials from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles told parents and alumni at a meeting Monday night at St. James Catholic Church in Redondo Beach. An audio recording of the two-hour meeting was obtained by the Southern California News Group.

The apparent scandal came to light last week when the church’s small, K-8 school announced that it had notified police that Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, and Sister Lana Chang, who both had retired earlier this year, were “involved in the personal use of a substantial amount of school funds.” But the nuns had expressed remorse, and the archdiocese and the church were not pursuing criminal charges.

Kreuper was the school’s

Is that
God helps those that help themselves?

People are the worst.....

I've put on three company golf tournaments in my life. In all three, someone cheated to win prizes.

One was a fund raiser for our warehouse guy who had cancer. They wheeled him in. He'd lost most of his hearing by then and some of his eyesight. He basically a lump of flesh. Sad. But, one of our customers who participated cheated to win. Everyone else who won money was donating everything back into the pot because the idea was to give everything to this guy. I remember I won a closest to the hole prize, maybe $100. I tossed in in like everyone else. These guys? They kept their first place prize which I think was $400 gift certificates. What scums...

Matchless G11 wrote on 12/07/18 at 08:09:36:


need to forward that to tweety