Dental Embezzlement Cases Between $100K and $500K

Prosperident has documented 152 dental embezzlement cases involving thefts between $100,000 and $500,000. At this scale, embezzlement is rarely a single act of opportunity — it is a sustained scheme that operated for years before discovery, exploiting weaknesses in financial controls that the dentist did not know existed. The cases below are drawn from public records and reflect prosecutions, convictions, and civil judgments reported in news media.

Cases in this range tend to share three features: they involve trusted long-tenured employees, they exploit a specific control gap that no one was monitoring, and they are uncovered by accident rather than by audit. Practice owners reading this list will recognize the pattern. Pattern recognition matters. If something you read here feels familiar, call Prosperident at 888-398-2327 before assumptions harden into evidence problems.

• Pamela Sue Harris of Iowa embezzled from 2005 to 2014 -- sentenced to 41 months in prison, ordered to pay $491k in restitution — $491k (Iowa)
• Pennsylvania office manager Jill E. D'Angelo sentenced to 41 months for fraud -- Steal of $475k — $475k (Pennsylvania)
• Dale Barlage, Arizona financial advisor, scams dentist friend for $465K — $465K (Arizona)
• West Virginia Dental Office Employee Accused of Embezzling Over $463,000 — $463,000 (Virginia)
• Elizabeth Ann Eisert convicted for steal of $450k from Oregon dentist; sentenced to 60 months — $450k (Oregon)
• Pullman WA's Debora Jo Ailor sentenced for embezzling $437,000 — $437,000 (Washington)
• An oldie but a goodie -- British Columbia's ELIA KRATKY embezzles $436k from three dental offices; receives conditional sentence — $436k (Canada)
• NY Dental CFO Kevin J. Conroy Sentenced for Embezzling $432k From Practice -- has Previous Conviction for Embezzlement — $432k (New York)
• Virginia dentist's friend David Kagey sentenced to three years for steal of $422k — $422k (Virginia)
• Prosperident helps another victim obtain justice -- Jennifer Leslie sentenced for defrauding Ontario dentist of $420,000 — $420,000 (Canada)
• Maryland office manager Michelle Rampersad convicted of wire fraud for $407k — $407k (Maryland)
• Carla Fisher-Schmitt accused of $400k steal from NY practice — $400k (New York)
• Prosperident's Investigation Results in Office Manager Deanna Gray's 12-Year Sentence for Steal of $400K From VA Dental Practice — $400K
• Update - NJ's Yolanda Torres Pleads Guilty to steal of $400K - Sentence 6-20 Years — $400K (New Jersey)
• Illinois Bookkeeper Roxana Dusanek Charged with Stealing $400,000 from Dental Office; bail set at $300k — $400,000 (Illinois)
• Mashpee, MA's Mary Lou McGrail Charged With Steal of More Than $400,000 — $400,000 (Massachusetts)
• NC's Angela Nicole Brown stole $400,000 from dentist, spent it on Disney World and other vacations. Sentenced to five years. — $400,000 (North Carolina)
• Florida dentist Robert Thousand Jr. victim of $399k steal from retirement accounts — $399k (Florida)
• Another British Embezzlement - Leanne Mary Daniell Accused of Steal of £302,680 (approx. $375,000) — £302,680 (UK)
• Phuong Nguyen of Massachusetts pleads guilty to embezzling $378k -- sentenced to 46 months in prison — $378k (Massachusetts)
• Big UK theft - Lisa Marie Jones Jailed for Stealing £300,000 — £300,000 (UK)
• Con man Zed Turner poses as accountant, steals $375k from FL dental office — $375k
• California's Kim Herman Did Steal $365k from Santa Barbara Employer -- 5 Year Prison Sentence — $365k (California)
• Indiana brothers Justyn and Trystan Arch plead guilty to defrauding Medicaid of $365K — $365K (Indiana)
• UK Dental manager cooked books to steal £285k — £285k (UK)
• A veterinary example -- PA office manager Trisha Lynn McLaughlin accused of steal of $355k from animal hospital — $355k
• San Antonio Embezzler Misty Casanova Sentenced to 15 Years for Steal of $353k — $353k (California)
• How is this for Nerve? Accused Florida Embezzler Kathryn Evelon Swearingen Said Money Stolen $350,000 was Owed Her — $350,000 (Florida)
• Wisconsin's Mary E Wilson gets Prison for Steal of $350K: Dental Clinic Employee Took Trips, Gambled — $350K (Wisconsin)
• Virginia embezzler Rosalind Deborah Wright goes undetected for ten years; Steal of $350k — $350k (Virginia)

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Related Pages

• Hall of Shame archive (all cases)
• Cases over $1 million
• Cases between $50K and $100K