Ex-Bookkeeper Gets 25 Years in Dialysis Embezzlement |CITY|
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on 2007-01-21 05:21.
A former dialysis clinic bookkeeper asked a judge to grant her a long probation and make her pay full restitution for stealing more than a million dollars from her employer. Instead, Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Deborah L. Toda to 25 years in prison. The judge handed down the sentence Friday and ordered "that restitution be paid by whatever funds possible, whenever possible."
"It's well-deserved because no bank robber in the history of Trumbull, Mahoning or Columbiana [counties] was able to steal $1.6 million, said Kenneth Cardinal, an assistant county prosecutor, who added he believed "this is the largest heist ever recorded" in this area. "This case, although very, very serious, is a nonviolent case, and nobody was physically hurt," Toda's lawyer, Douglas Taylor, told the judge before she imposed the sentence. |
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