From The Bangor Daily News:
A former bookkeeper at Sprague Nursery and Garden Center in Bangor, Maine, was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison with all but four years suspended for embezzling more than $400,000 from the business, according to an article in The Bangor Daily News.
Ellen F. Wilson Gunstone, 57, pleaded no contest to one count of theft by unauthorized taking, a Class B crime, shortly before being sentenced.
In addition to prison time, District Court Judge John Lucy sentenced Wilson Gunstone to four years of probation and ordered her to pay $5,000 per year, or a total of $15,000, in restitution to Sprague’s Nursery and Garden Center in Bangor.
Read the full story on The Bangor Daily News, and find out what Daniel Sprague said in response to the restitution amount.
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