FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) - The former treasurer of a Farmington food pantry has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for stealing more than $300,000 from the organization over more than a decade.
Mary O’Donal pleaded guilty last month to writing herself monthly checks. She was sentenced on Thursday.
Under the plea deal, the 74-year-old Farmington woman agreed to three years of probation and must repay $291,000 to the Care and Share Food Closet.
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O’Donal will give the deed to her house to the organization. She and her ill husband can continue living there until they enter a nursing home or die.
O’Donal had been treasurer of the food pantry since the 1970s.
She apologized in a statement, saying she “did a very bad thing,” but that she’s not a bad person.
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