Gambling Nun Gets House Arrest for Embezzlement
By Austin Cline
If you embezzled $850,000 from your company and blew it all gambling, you’d go to jail. If you’re a nun, you might only get house arrest. That’s what happened in the case of Sister Susie, a nun at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. For ten years she’d lose several thousand dollars at Atlantic City every week — money that belonged to Iona College, not her. Instead of jail, though, she just gets confined in a convent. (more…)
