OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - In a story June 8, 2016, about a Lincoln man who was sentenced to probation for theft, The Associated Press, based on information from the Omaha World-Herald, reported erroneously that Jeffrey Bomberger pleaded guilty to felony theft of more than $37,000. He pleaded no contest to felony theft by deception of more than $1,500.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Former employee at Omaha church pleads no contest to theft
A Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading no contest to felony theft from an Omaha church
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading no contest to felony theft from an Omaha church.
The Omaha World-Herald (https://bit.ly/1PgTxrL ) reports that Douglas County District Judge Thomas Otepka ordered 42-year-old Jeffrey D. Bomberger, a former employee at Dundee Presbyterian Church, to pay $6,000 in restitution and receive treatment for a gambling addiction.
Douglas County Attorney’s Office investigator Lance Ivener says Bomberger, the former director of operations at the church, admitted to using the church’s funds to gamble at keno parlors.
In November 2015, church leaders discovered Bomberger was using a church account to purchase credit cards that he said were being used for charitable donations.
Bomberger’s attorney, Jim Hoppe, says most of the church’s losses were covered by insurance.
A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.
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