California Office Manager Deborah Kessler Guilty of Steal of More Than $100,000 -- Sentenced to Two Years in Jail
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Deborah Kessler, 45, a former office manager for dental practices in Orange County, California (CA), was sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to charges that she embezzled more than $100,000 in insurance reimbursement payments by signing them over to her personal bank account. Diverting insurance reimbursement checks to a personal account is one of the most consistently documented methods of dental practice embezzlement and is directly enabled by the absence of independent bank statement review.
Embezzlement cases like this one represent one of the most common forms of workplace theft affecting dental practices.
Sources: ABC7 Los Angeles — arrest coverage; CBS Los Angeles (both cover the charges and the forged insurance-check method; the plea and sentence were reported in follow-up coverage no longer indexed).
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