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  • Former synod treasurer sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for theft of synod funds

    11/21/2008 2:45:52 PM PST · by lightman · 9 replies · 431+ views
    Lower Susquehanna Synod, ELCA ^ | 21 November AD 2008 | Barbara Myers
    (Harrisburg, PA)…Barry R. Herr, former treasurer of the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was sentenced today to serve 30 months in federal prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $799,998 in restitution. Herr, 62, of Lancaster, was arrested on March 13, 2008, and charged with thirty-six (36) counts of Criminal Use of a Communication Facility (electronic transfer of funds) and one (1) count of Theft by Deception in the amount of $1,004,732. Each charge is a felony of the third degree. The charges stem from months of investigation by the synod, the...