Cringer
04-26-2005, 09:38 AM
http://www.packersnews.com/archives/news/pack_20783250.shtml
A judge ordered an Appleton woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family’s Packers tickets next season to charity.
Sharon Rosenthal, 59, of Appleton, was sentenced last week in Winnebago County Circuit Court.
The criminal complaint states that Rosenthal had taken money totaling more than $3,000 from labor union accounts before leaving the organization’s membership. The check transactions were later discovered.
She withdrew money from the union in order to help pay household bills, the complaint says.
While Rosenthal told police financial hardship was an issue, she and her husband managed to maintain the cost of four tickets to the Packers’ three-game Gold season-ticket package. Rosenthal argued that the tickets were her husband’s rather than hers. Judge Scott Woldt nonetheless offered her the choice to either serve the jail time or donate the 12 tickets for the upcoming season to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
With the cheapest seats in Lambeau Field costing $54 apiece, the season package is worth at least $648. The jail time — or the ticket donation — will occur as part of a two-year period of probation.
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Haha, hard choice.
A judge ordered an Appleton woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family’s Packers tickets next season to charity.
Sharon Rosenthal, 59, of Appleton, was sentenced last week in Winnebago County Circuit Court.
The criminal complaint states that Rosenthal had taken money totaling more than $3,000 from labor union accounts before leaving the organization’s membership. The check transactions were later discovered.
She withdrew money from the union in order to help pay household bills, the complaint says.
While Rosenthal told police financial hardship was an issue, she and her husband managed to maintain the cost of four tickets to the Packers’ three-game Gold season-ticket package. Rosenthal argued that the tickets were her husband’s rather than hers. Judge Scott Woldt nonetheless offered her the choice to either serve the jail time or donate the 12 tickets for the upcoming season to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
With the cheapest seats in Lambeau Field costing $54 apiece, the season package is worth at least $648. The jail time — or the ticket donation — will occur as part of a two-year period of probation.
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Haha, hard choice.