[MSN] Judge orders Cosmosphere founder to repay $132,0374

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*Judge orders Cosmosphere founder to repay $132,0374*

WICHITA, Kan. A judge orders Kansas Cosmosphere founder Max Ary to pay 
more than 132-thousand dollars in restitution for stealing artifacts 
from the Hutchinson museum.

But in federal court in Wichita today, the judge also said Ary can 
remain out of jail pending his appeals.Ary was sentenced in May to three 
years in prison. He was convicted last fall on a dozen counts including 
fraud, money laundering and theft of government property.Ary headed the 
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Museum from 1976 to 2002, when he became 
executive director of the Oklahoma City Omniplex.Federal prosecutors 
accused him of stealing and then selling a variety of items belonging to 
NASA or the Cosmosphere, including components of a spacesuit and items 
carried into space by astronauts.Ary maintained the items became mixed 
into his personal collection by accident.

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