The 75-year-old former president of the Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library Inc. who stole $132,000 from the nonprofit because "her boyfriend needed it" was sentenced to five years of probation on Friday, according to the group's treasurer.
As part of the probation, Margaret Nooney Smith, who worked for Jacksonville's public library system for almost four decades until her 2007 retirement, has to pay $700 a month in restitution to the Friends of the Library.
Seated in the courtroom for Friday's sentencing, group treasurer David Wells said Smith told the judge she realized she had done wrong and was "embarrassed for her family and embarrassed for Friends of the Library." He said the restitution "will certainly help" the volunteer group that is committed to continue raising money for the city's library system.
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