Rachael Carvell, practice manager of Fosse Dental Care in Leicester, England, received an 18-month suspended prison sentence after stealing £80,243 from the practice to subsidize her own failing business. Despite the substantial sum stolen, the sentence was suspended by the court. The motivation — funding a separate, failing personal business venture — is one of the more unusual patterns documented in dental practice embezzlement cases.
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