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Boston A Rhode Island woman was sentenced yesterday for embezzling more than $1 million from her employer and failing to pay more than $260,000 in taxes on those funds.
Barbara Levy of Portsmouth, R.I., was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 32 months in prison and two years of supervised release. Levy was also ordered to pay $1,319,849 in restitution, which includes $260,982 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). On Jan. 27, 2021, Levy pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of filing a false tax return.
Levy worked as an office manager at a New Bedford-based company. Between December 2012 and October 2019, Levy forged 1,134 checks to herself from her employer s bank accounts, totaling $1,058,867, and deposited the funds into her own account or cashed them. Levy hid her scheme by altering monthly bank statements, substituting the names of legitimate purported payees in place of her o
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Woman Sentenced for Stealing $1 Million From New Bedford Employer
A Portsmouth, Rhode Island woman has been sentenced after admitting to stealing more than $1 million from her New Bedford-based employer and failing to pay taxes on those funds.
Fifty-year-old Barbara Levy was sentenced Tuesday in Boston Federal Court to 32-months in prison plus two years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution.
In January of this year, Levy pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of filing a false tax return.
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The U.S. Attorney s Office says Levy worked as an office manager at a New Bedford company and according to prosecutors, forged more than 11-hundred checks to herself from her employer s bank accounts and then deposited the funds into her own account or cashed them.
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