FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A little more than a month after a Broward jury found her guilty in a scheme to embezzle nearly $240,000 from her employer, a judge sentenced a former Catholic school principal to probation on Wednesday.
Broward prosecutors say they had asked the judge to sentence Lori St. Thomas, the former principal at St. Coleman Catholic School in Pompano Beach, to five years in state prison followed by 20 years of probation and a $121,548 restitution payment.
Instead, a judge chose to give her 10 years of probation and to pay the restitution…