'I'm ashamed,' ex-Sandusky lawyer Karl Rominger says as he gets state prison for stealing $767K

In in his heyday as a defense attorney, Karl Rominger was aggressive, even brash on behalf of his clients.

A far more humble, even tearful Rominger stood before a judge in a Cumberland County courtroom Wednesday afternoon and received a 5 1/2- to 18-year state prison sentence for stealing more than $767,000 from his clients.

The pilfered money, some of which was stolen from an estate that helps finance the Bethesda Mission for the homeless in Harrisburg, went to feed his gambling addiction, said Rominger, who was part of the defense team for Jerry Sandusky's child-sex trial.

"I'm ashamed. I'm very ashamed of what I've done," the 43-year-old Carlisle man told Adams County Judge Michael George, who presided specially in the case. "It's something I can't undo, I can't take back."

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