A nun in Southern California has
been caught stealing, literally,
hundreds of thousands of dollars
from the Catholic school that she
works in, in order to indulge in
her gambling habit.
Now, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper
will plead guilty to swindling over
$835,000 from the Catholic
elementary school she ran,
to help pay for her gambling trips.
She's 79 years old,
and was charged with wire fraud and
money laundering for ripping off
St. James Catholic school for
a period of 10 years ending in
September of 2018.
Now she was in charge,
unfortunately, of the school's
credit union account, and it was
meant to deposit the cash and
checks from tuition.
And the St.
James Convent Account, a savings
account that funded the living
expenses of the nuns was basically
what she was skimming money off of.
As the archdiocese
conducted a financial review for
the new principle, it noticed
something was off in the documents.
And so, finally,
they did this investigation,
they realized, my gosh, the nun
who's in charge of our credit
union account is the one who's been
skimming money from the tuition
that's being paid for the school.
And now her lawyers are saying,
well, she's actually not
a bad person,
it's just that she's been suffering
some mental health issues.
>> Sure. >> And that's why she felt
the need to steal money from
this Catholic school and
fund her gambling habit.
>> Okay, so buckle up, brace for
impact, here comes dad jokes.
Okay, now it is a bad habit, okay.
>> Nailed it.
>> But I'm having none of it.
[LAUGH] >> Okay, yeah,
it was a sister acting badly.
[LAUGH] >> Okay, all right now,
my instinct is to yell, let her go,
let her go, why?
>> What?
>> Because I'm a hopeless gambler.
>> Jesus Christ.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, do I mean it?
Of course, not, she's stealing
from other nuns and kids.
It's outrageous, right?
I love that excuse that
she has some mental health issues
that she's been having for decades.
>> I mean, it is a defense that's
used quite often in criminal
cases, so.
>> Yeah, I mean,
she was shredding documents.
But, if a person's having mental,
decline issues, she's not trying to
cover up evidence by shredding and
burning documents and
all that stuff.
Okay, that's not what's happening.
>> Dude, it's
nearly a million dollars.
>> Yeah.
>> Nearly a million dollars,
that's the problem with criminals,
well, I mean, the problem with
criminals is criminals.
But, if she had just been a little
less greedy,
she would have gotten away with it.
>> Yeah, sure.
And look, it happens
everywhere, too.
I remember in our school,
after we left,
it turns out an assistant principal
who's in charge of the safe, okay?
>> Mm-hm.
>> Was stealing from the safe,
[LAUGH] okay?
So, which leads to the serious
point in this story.
When I was growing up,
I was told that people in authority
were awesome and they were to be be
trusted completely, right?
Cops never lie,
religious figures like priests and
nuns are wonderful.
The government never lies on,
on and on and on.
By the way,
who told you all those lies?
The mainstream media.
It was the mythology of
bow your head, the people in
authority are the best of the best.
Now, I come to find out, the cops
do not always tell the truth.
Every African American in
the audience is going,
I could have told you that, okay?
And then,
look at what the priest did, right?
Now, here comes a nun with a bad
habit, blah, blah, blah, right?
And so, look, this is a one-off on
nuns, there's some wonderful nuns.
By the way there's some wonderful
priests and some wonderful cops,
yes, they exist, etc.
But don't believe the hype, okay?
Those people in positions of power
are very fallible,
they're very human.
They do not always tell the truth,
they do not always do
the right thing.
And the more power you give them,
the more corrupted they become.
And the more they tell you,
don't question them,
the more likely they are to become
corrupted, because that means
there's no check on their actions.
>> Yep.
>> So, let's put a check on all of
these people in power.
That's what we're
supposed to do in a democracy.
Unfortunately, we haven't done
very much of that.
But at least they caught her.
You know what her plan was,
she was going to win it back.
I can tell you from personal
experience, it's a very bad plan.