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US & UK : Crime & Punishment at Toner Research Inc …..
LITH woman to pay $100K
WOODSTOCK – A Lake in the Hills woman was ordered to pay restitution and spend 180 days in jail for stealing more than $100,000 from her employer over a period of two years.Diana Voss, 48, had pleaded guilty to theft. She took a blind plea, prosecutors said, meaning she had no deal for sentencing.
Voss was charged in 2010 with one count of theft for taking a total of $130,363.27 from her Crystal Lake-based employer, Toner Research Inc. She said she used the money on medical expenses for a sick aunt.
“It was all me,” Voss said. “I don’t blame anybody. It’s something I had done, and I got caught up in it. If I could go back, I would.”
The criminal indictment listed losses of $106,220, an amount Judge Sharon Prather ordered Voss to pay in restitution. Voss was ordered to make $100 monthly payments, based on her current $9-an-hour earnings. If she makes all the monthly payments, it will take her more than 88 years to pay off.
Assistant State’s Attorney, Dominic J. Buttitta Jr. requested that Voss pay a higher amount. Voss took a total of $130,450.27, he said, but after the company’s insurance payout, the company’s losses totaled $117,087.27.
“It was malicious, it was calculated and it was at the direct hands, the calculated hands, of Miss Voss,” Buttitta said.
Voss’ public defender, Angelo Mourelatos, said that his client could not afford restitution payments and that her home is in foreclosure.
“[The requested restitution] is a large financial burden for my client given her limited financial means,” Mourelatos said.
Mourelatos requested that Voss be sentenced to probation.
Buttitta read an impact statement from Toner Research Inc. President Abdul Bouzit in which Bouzit said that his business had struggled to bounce back after Voss’ crime.
“A great deal of trust was placed in Diana,” the impact statement read. Bouzit also called the theft a “gross violation of trust and continued hardship on my small business.”
Added Buttitta: “Miss Voss’ personal hardship should not be at the hardship of Abdul and his livelihood.”
Voss was hired as a temporary worker in 2004 at Toner Research, and permanently in 2005. After growing suspicious of Voss, Bouzit fired her in November 2008, and a police report was filed in December 2008.
The money was taken between July 21, 2006, and Nov. 14, 2008, according to the indictment. Voss was charged in 2010 with one Class 1 felony. She faced a potential sentence of four to 15 years in jail.Voss also received 30 months’ probation.
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Conman jailed after defrauding couple
A Photpcopier salesman has been jailed for more than four years after defrauding an elderly couple.The couple went bankrupt after being the victims of a million pound scam by Gary Carr, of Stotfold.
Clifford and Elaine Bartlett’s company, King’s Music, was destroyed by Carr who made £400,000 in a little over a year.At Luton Crown Court Carr, 49, of Regent Street pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud between March 2007 and May 2008.
He was jailed for four years and eight months.
During the fraud the couple’s two severely mentally handicapped adult children were persuaded to waive their right of residence to the family home – as it was used as security for a consolidation loan as the family finances deteriorated.Mr Barlett, aged 70, and his 63-year-old wife went bankrupt with creditors being owed £679,535.Another victim of the fraud, estate agent Peter Lane ended up in an Independent Voluntary Agreement with his creditors in which he has to repay £300,000 over five years.
The 63-year-old used all his life savings in civil cases to avoid bankruptcy.Co-defendant Mark Carmichael, 48,of Tudor Way, Waltham Abbey who laundered some of the money pleaded guilty to converting criminal property between January 2008 and May 2008.
He received £70,000 from Carr and was jailed for 15 months.
Michael Speak, for the Crown Prosecution Service said the case had involved a very complicated police investigation.Peter Lane and Elaine Bartlett had known Gary Carr for nearly 20 years and ‘had trusted him to a very high degree.’He had supplied them with photocopiers but in recent years they had been ‘enormously tricked and deceived by him.’Mr Speak said photocopiers made by companies from suppliers such as Canon and Toshiba can cost as much as £50,000.Typically, it is not purchased directly from the manufacturer but through salesman such as Carr.A salesman would arrange the financing of the machine under a lease hire agreement over a three year or greater period and receive a commission
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