
Dr. Jay L. Mestel, 43, the co-owner and vice president of West Hartford Family Dentistry in West Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to repay more than $340,000 that he had fraudulently diverted from the practice. Mestel pleaded guilty to mail fraud before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton, advising the court at sentencing that he had already begun making restitution to the practice.
Embezzlement on this scale rarely develops overnight—it compounds year after year, undetected. Prosperident's forensic team can quantify the full damage and build the evidence needed for prosecution and recovery.