Dental Embezzlement Cases Between $50K and $100K
Prosperident has documented 63 dental embezzlement cases involving thefts between $50,000 and $100,000. 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. Most dentists wait too long. If you have concerns about a team member, a conversation with Prosperident at 888-398-2327 will tell you whether they're worth pursuing.
- Louisiana Dental Office Employee Katie Lykins Arrested for Steal of $99K — $99K (Louisiana)
- Nikki Lee Martinez's vehicle had blank checks found by police; steal of $96K — $96K
- Washington's Terri Kakalecik allegedly committed steal of up to $95,000 from employer — $95,000 (Washington)
- Michigan's Jennifer Malone sentenced to one year for $94k steal — $94k (Michigan)
- Ronald Jordan of NS jailed for $90K steal from wife's practice — $90K
- Pennsylvania office manager Kim Yvette Menne arrested for steal of $90,000 — $90,000 (Pennsylvania)
- Arkansas' Sonja Cunningham sentenced to 33 months for $90k embezzlement — $90k (Arkansas)
- Donna Campbell of Michigan's gambling addiction results in $88k embezzlement and six-month jail sentence — $88k (Michigan)
- Arizona Dental Office Manager Kathy Salazar Given Prison Term for Steal of $88K From Insurance — $88K (Arizona)
- Oxnard CA woman arrested, accused of $87,000 embezzlement — $87,000 (California)
- Former employee Cynthia Rodriguez accused of steal of $85K from Florida dental office — $85K (Florida)
- New Jersey's Jackie Singer Convicted for Steal of $85k — $85k (New Jersey)
- Angelica Rodriguez of NJ Convicted for Steal of $83K from Hackettstown Dentist — $83K (New Jersey)
- WA dental hygienist Shari Lee Kristiansen charged with cleaning up in $81k workers' comp steal — $81k
- UK Embezzlement - Dental Nurse Jennifer Locke uses fake patient names to steal £60,000 (US$81K) — $81K (UK)
- Joanna Ridley and Matthew Ridley, Two Alberta Dental Clinic Employees Charged With $80K Steal — $80K (Canada)
- Iowa's Kiki Sue Jutting gets suspended sentence and probation for steal of $80K — $80K (Iowa)
- Bambi Lynn Johnson of Michigan sentenced to 8 months in jail for steal of $80K — $80K (Michigan)
- New Haven's Harold Lee Abrams arrested for stealing $80,000 from dentist office — $80,000 (Connecticut)
- Kristen Labrue of Florida alleged to steal $80K in check steal; has done it before — $80K (Florida)
- SC embezzler David A Smith sentenced to two years for $78k steal — $78k
- Missouri's Sandra Brandes Sentenced to 15 months for Bank Fraud; forfeits airplane to dentist she worked for - steal of $77k — $77k (Missouri)
- North Dakota's Douglas Pete Miller commits steal of $76k from dentist by bonus manipulation — $76k (North Dakota)
- New Jersey's Sabra Aschenbrenner gets probation for steal of $75K from employer — $75K (New Jersey)
- Emily Marie Forbes, California woman sentenced to prison for steal from dental patients at five different dental offices of $72,000 — $72,000 (California)
- Maine Embezzler Lori Ann Savage Sent to Prison, Ordered to Pay Restitution for $72K steal — $72K (Maine)
- Feds: Vermont Dental Employees Tammy Laroque and Lindsey Cox Obtained Drugs, Committed Steal of $71K — $71K (Vermont)
- Vermont's Allison Schy Charged with Embezzling from Dentist. Possible steal of $68K — $68K (Vermont)
- Alaska's Bridget Mincheski ordered to pay $67,000 in restitution for office steal — $67,000 (Alaska)
- California Bookkeeper Jasmine Delafuente Pleads no Contest to Third Embezzlement Charge in Four Years for Steal of $65K — $65K (California)
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