Gregory Hogan Jr., the former Lehigh University sophomore who admitted robbing a bank to pay gambling debts, has been sentenced to serve a prison term of 22 months to 10 years, The Morning Call, an Allentown, Pa., newspaper reports. The judge said he would recommend that Mr. Hogan, who is 20, be placed in a facility for youthful offenders.
Mr. Hogan pleaded guilty to felony bank robbery last month. At his sentencing on Thursday, he apologized to Lehigh for the bad publicity he had brought to the university. He was president of the sophomore class at the time of his arrest (The Chronicle, December 13, 2005).
“I am a compulsive gambler,” he told the court, adding that he would like to earn a college degree. He said he held up the bank, in Allentown, to pay debts he had accumulated by playing online poker.
