Prosperident helps another victim obtain justice -- Jennifer Leslie sentenced for defrauding Ontario dentist of $420,000
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Update November 6, 2019 -- Jennifer Leslie was sentenced to two years in prison for her crime.
"Let the record show the defendant is crying, and I regret that, but she has much to be ashamed of," Justice Joseph De Filippis said Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines.
Jennifer Leslie made hundreds of unauthorized transactions
Court was told that Leslie worked as a manager at dental offices in Fort Erie and Ridgeway. Starting in 2013, she made hundreds of unauthorized transactions and funnelled more than $420,000 into her personal bank accounts.
"There is no prospect of immediate restitution of any kind," assistant Crown attorney Tim Hill told the judge.
"It's difficult to imagine where all that money went."
Some of it was used to fund family vacations, purchase a vehicle, invest in her children's RESPs and gamble.
The dentist she worked for was forced to liquidate hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments to deal with the shortfall, court was told.
In a victim impact statement read into court, the dentist said he treated his employee like a member of his family.
In addition to the prison sentence, Leslie was placed on probation for three years.
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