Connecticut bookkeeper Bernice Dohn commits steal for $60k; had 2014 conviction for embezzlement

BRIDGEPORT - Bernice Dohn, a Milford bookkeeper, serving a prison term for stealing more than $350,000 from a Redding tree service, pleaded not guilty Thursday to stealing more than $60,000 from a Fairfield dentist.
Bernice Dohn, 57, the owner of Premier Accounting and Bookkeeping Services in Milford, pleaded not guilty before Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin to first-degree larceny and second-degree forgery.
She asked for a jury trial.
The judge continued the case to March 9.

Bernice Dohn, serial embezzler

Dohn, of Rivercliff Drive, Milford, had been working for Dr. Kenneth Epstein of the Family Dental Group in Fairfield when she abruptly quit in February 2016 because she said she needed foot surgery, according to police.
She was in fact surrendering the next day to begin a prison term for another embezzlement.
Police said the dental office later determined that Dohn, who had been in charge of the office’s payroll, had been writing checks to herself from the office’s accounts.
In addition, police said Dohn also altered checks sent to the dental office to make them payable to her and had been paying herself unauthorized raises and overtime.
Bernice Dohn should have been getting a salary of $55,120 a year but when she quit she was making $85,609 by her own hand, police said.
Dohn was sentenced Feb. 10 to four years in prison for stealing $365,000 from Evergreen Enterprises of Redding where she had been working as a bookkeeper for two years.
At the time Dohn was on probation for embezzling $11,000 from a Berlin company where she worked as a bookkeeper. Police said she used some of the money she stole from Evergreen to pay restitution in the Berlin case and they believe she used money she allegedly stole from Dr. Epstein to pay back Evergreen.