Trusty pleaded guilty to stealing from a student activity fund at Western and was sentenced in October 2015 to five years of probation and ordered to pay the money back. From 2011 to 2014, prosecutors said, Trusty used the account to buy $25,000 worth of personal items and to pay bills, personal legal fees and the 19-day hotel stay in New Jersey. Trusty told a judge she was "very ashamed," saying the thefts cost her a 17-year career.