“What I perceived as an injustice was rationale for my sin,” Kreuper said, “and I know that I was wrong.” The judge asked Kreuper how she could believe that, considering she was a nun and “basically signed on to be poor.” In an earlier interview with authorities, Wright said, Kreuper told investigators that one factor in taking the money was that she felt there was a disparity in pay between private and public schools. Attorney Poonam Kumar said.ĭuring sentencing in downtown Los Angeles, Wright said he took into consideration Kreuper’s age, lack of prior criminal history and her 60-plus years as a nun.īut, he said, “I am sure that this horrible example will affect these kids. In addition to the embezzling funds, the former principal also directed employees to alter and destroy financial records during a school audit, Assistant U.S. Kreuper was responsible for funds the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school received for tuition and fees, in addition to donations. I was wrong and I’m profoundly sorry for the pain and suffering I’ve caused so many people.” “My actions were in violation of my vows, my commandments, the law and, above all, the sacred trust that so many had placed in me. “I have sinned, I’ve broken the law and I have no excuses,” Kreuper said via teleconference from a convent. She has paid back $10,000 and is expected to continuing paying back what she can, even if that is only $20 a month after she is released. Wright II sentenced Kreuper to one year in federal prison and to fully pay the school back. In July, she pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering. Mary Margaret Kreuper, 80, of Los Angeles, admitted to stealing the funds while she was principal at St. 7, after pleading guilty to embezzling approximately $835,000 from the K-8 campus to pay for personal expenses such as gambling trips. He likes to hike, bike and spend time with his family.A nun and former principal of a Torrance Catholic school was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday, Feb. He attended California State University, Fullerton, where he graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Photo Communication. Gritchen served as the Director of Region 10 of the National Press Photographer Association from 1999 to 2005. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award. In 2016 he traveled to China to document the opening of Disney’s newest theme park in Shanghai. In 2008 he traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl as she traveled to the U.S. In 2005 he covered the destruction of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Gritchen has covered everything from the large Cambodian community in Long Beach to a few NBA Championships and a World Series. In 1994 he started working for the company that would eventually become the Southern California News Group - first at The Orange County Register, then the Long Beach Press-Telegram, then back to Orange County. Jeff Gritchen started his career working for the American Red Cross as a disaster relief photographer 1989. The lawsuit was dismissed in April 2022.Īfter losing the lawsuit, the removal of the lead-painted mural was inevitable, but talks of recreating the mural with non-lead paint began.
Army Corps of Engineers, which controls the dam, announced plans to remove the fading painting, leading mural co-designer Kammeyer and the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles to sue in May 2015 to stop the plans. Thirty Corona high school students camped out over two weekends with donated paint from local hardware stores and finished the mural in May 1976.Īfter many years, the mural began to fade, and issues with graffiti and lead paint concerns arose. In 1976, Perry Schaefer and his Corona high school classmate Ron Kammeyer designed the mural to look like a bumper sticker, winning a senior class project. The mural, originally painted in 1976, commemorated 200 years of freedom for the U.S., but over the decades has faded and been vandalized. After months of work, the restoration of the 80,000-square-foot Prado Dam Bicentennial Freedom Mural near Corona is complete.
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