NEW YORK
Observer-Dispatch
By ROCCO LaDUCA
Observer-Dispatch
Posted Jun 20, 2012
UTICA —
The Rev. Valentine Krul asked for forgiveness Wednesday as he was sentenced for stealing more than $87,000 from a New York Mills church.
Krul, 61, of Forestport, was placed on five years of probation after already completing six-months of incarceration at the Oneida County jail for his guilty plea to second-degree grand larceny.
“I ask forgiveness from my family and my friends and the church for my actions,” Krul told Judge Barry M. Donalty in Oneida County Court.
Krul stole thousands of dollars from the Church of the Sacred Heart and St. Mary Our Lady of Czestochowa in New York Mills while he was pastor from October 2008 until January 2011. Of that money, Krul used more than $46,000 of it to buy a condominium in Florida.
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