A 36-year-old Buddhist monk in the US has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $263,463 in restitution after embezzling over $260,000 from a temple in louisiana for gambling at a casino.
Khang Nguyen le, a Vietnamese citizen who is living in lafayette, was sentenced by US District Judge Donald E Walter on one count of wire fraud yesterday.
He was also ordered to pay $263,463.36 in restitution and may face deportation to Vietnam after release from prison, United States Attorney Stephanie A Finley said.
Finley said the monk was sentenced to 30 months in prison for wrongfully taking over $263,000 from his own temple.
According to the March 17, 2016 guilty plea, le was the president, presiding monk and resident of the temple of the Vietnamese Buddhist
Association of Southwest louisiana in lafayette from 2010 to October of 2014.