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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; An Exeter woman accused of helping to squander a $1.2 million estate will be spending 30 to 60 months in state prison.</p><p>Gloria Riegel, 66, was sentenced on Monday by Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough to 15 to 30 months in prison on individual felony counts of theft and criminal conspiracy, with both sentences to run consecutively.</p><p>Court documents show that she was taken into custody on Monday. Riegel will also be required to pay court costs, undergo a mental health evaluation and submit a DNA sample. She will eligible to be released early if she complies with all requirements after 22&#189; months.</p><p>Riegel pleaded no-contest to the charges on June 3.</p><p>Her co-defendant and husband Joel Riegel, 77, died in September 2014.</p><p>According to the Times Leader archives, authorities accused the Riegels, as executors of the estate of late labor leader Anthony Kane, of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Kane&#8217;s $1.2 million estate, whose primary beneficiary was the United Way of Wyoming Valley.</p><p>Kane worked in the Wyoming Valley West School District as a music teacher and also served as president of the district&#8217;s teachers union. Following his death in December 2001, Kane left the bulk of his estate to the United Way, an organization of which he was an adamant supporter.</p><p>The Riegels allegedly paid themselves excessive fees for administering the estate and used the funds to cover a variety of personal expenses, including a golf membership, expensive jewelry and a $20 parking ticket.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Gloria and Joel Riegel charged with stealing from the estate of Anthony F. Kane Jr. leave a hearing. Clark Van Orden | Times Leader </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web1_TTL060415riegel1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Gloria and Joel Riegel charged with stealing from the estate of Anthony F. Kane Jr. leave a hearing. Clark Van Orden | Times Leader </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Travis Kellar</p><p>tkellar@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Travis Kellar at 570-991-6389 or on Twitter @TLNews</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Exeter woman accused of estate theft sentenced to state prison