NJ office manager Barbara Reinhard convicted for steal of $215k from OMS practice, gets five days in jail

Barbara Reinhard, of Raritan Township, New Jersey, spent about a decade as the office manager of a New Jersey oral and maxillofacial surgery practice — a position of financial trust she used to embezzle $215,426.86 from her employer.

According to the indictment, the scheme ran for more than five years. Reinhard cashed 256 insurance checks made payable to the practice, diverting the money in varying amounts between March 1999 and November 2004. She was charged with second-degree theft by deception and second-degree theft by failure to make required disposition of property, and was arrested in February 2005.

The case also carried a drug-diversion dimension that frequently accompanies embezzlement. The indictment accused Reinhard of taking blank prescription pads from the office in 2004 and using them to illegally obtain the painkiller Vicoprofen — and it was that prescription-pad investigation, opened in November 2004, that first surfaced the misconduct and led authorities to the much larger financial theft.

Reinhard was convicted of embezzling the $215,426.86 and sentenced to five days in jail and five years of probation. The theft was documented through detailed financial records establishing a consistent pattern of unauthorized diversions across the five-year span.