Arizona Dental Office Manager Kathy Salazar Given Prison Term for Steal of $88K From Insurance
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Kathy Salazar, 51, a former office manager for a dental practice in Springerville, Arizona (AZ), was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement charges. Victims testified that the harm caused by her conduct would outlast her sentence. The case is representative of the lasting financial and operational damage that office manager embezzlement routinely inflicts on a dental practice.
This matter is documented as part of Prosperident's ongoing tracking of embezzlement and employee theft in the dental industry.
Sources: Claims Journal; KOLD (one year in prison plus seven years of probation and a $9,000 fine for $88,409 stolen from the St. Johns dentist she had worked for since age 18).
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