Retired Nun Allegedly Stole $875k from School to Pay For Gambling Trips On 6/9/21 at 10:46 AM EDT A retired nun and Catholic elementary school principal will plead guilty, after she allegedly stole over $835,000 from the school to pay for gambling trips and personal expenses. Mary Margaret Kreuper, 79, was charged Tuesday with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office for the Central District of California. Kreuper faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in federal prison. Kreuper was the principal of the St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California for 28 years. She retired in 2018 from the school that was overseen by the St. James church in Redondo Beach.