Twain House Embezzler Sentenced To 3 1/2 Years

Hartford Courant ^ | November 21, 2011 | EDMUND H. MAHONY

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A federal judge showed little sympathy Monday to an East Hartford grandmother who claimed she embezzled more than $1 million from the Mark Twain House and Museum to support her struggling, extended family.

Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton allowed Donna Gregor, who faced fraud and tax charges, to address him to apologize for eight years of theft she committed while employed as controller of the national landmark museum on Hartford's west side. He watched a brief, video plea from Gregor's mother, who has been diagnosed with cancer and is being cared for by her daughter.

[ConservativeStatement]

'A pathological altruist.' That's one for the record books.

[Bender2]

Re: A federal judge showed little sympathy Monday to an East Hartford grandmother who claimed she embezzled more than $1 million from the Mark Twain House and Museum to support her struggling, extended family.

In her defense, Donna Gregor told Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton, "The reports of my theft have been greatly exaggerated."

You gotta admire... her chutzpah!

[count-your-change]

But that she was a thief was established, now they were just haggling over the amount.

[goldstategop]

People would have helped her. That’s no reason to commit theft. Its never the right thing to do, ever.

[goldstategop]

Believe me, I have sympathy for her daughter. I know what its been like to take care of a sick parent. But that doesn’t excuse what her mother did. I can’t honor a parent who neither fears God nor man.

[count-your-change]

And her dishonesty actually has made things worse.

[Tainan]

Among other things, prosecutors said Gregor spent $936 on four visits to a hair salon, $1,105 on tickets for a Britney Spears concert, $812 at the box office at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, $23,000 on kitchen remodeling and tens of thousands of dollars at department stores.

'A pathological altruist.' ...Un hunh....in my circle this sorta falls under the "That dog just won't hunt" column. She's a con artist and a thief...but I repeat myself.

[oldteen]

Greed...plain and simple. Well, that, and a great deal of stupidity!

[ninonitti]

Just like Jon Corzine?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Samuel Langhorne Clemens would not have been surprised.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Occupy Prison Cell.