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Principal Charged With Stealing $30K From School, Says Westchester DA

BEDFORD, N.Y. -- A Yorktown Heights woman was arrested and charged for allegedly stealing $30,000 from St. Patrick's Parochial School in Bedford while she was principal, the Westchester County DIstrict Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

Jennifer Schmidberger was arrested and charged with allegedly stealing funds from the school she was principal of.

Jennifer Schmidberger was arrested and charged with allegedly stealing funds from the school she was principal of.

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Jennifer Schmidberger, 40, was charged with one count of grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony. 

An audit of the school’s finances conducted by the Archdiocese of New York in 2014 revealed irregularities, according to the District Attorney's Office.

An investigation by the district attorney's office revealed that the defendant made personal purchases using a school credit card and made cash withdrawals from the school account over a period of four years without permission or authority to do so, according to the district attorney's office..

Schmidberger had been the principal of the school since 2010. She was arrested Wednesday by investigators from the district attorney’s office and arraigned in Bedford Town Court.

Schmidberger faces a maximum of seven years in prison if convicted.

Bail was set at $1,500 cash or $5,000 bond. Her next court date is Oct. 7. 

The defendant was arraigned in Bedford Town Court.

Bail was set at $1,500 cash or $5,000 bond.

Her next court date is October 7th, 2015.

She faces a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison.

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