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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowAn Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling $5.5 million from her former employer.
Kristi Espiritu was ordered Tuesday to serve 46 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release. She also must pay $2.74 million in restitution to each of two business owners.
Prosecutors said that during the six-year scam Espiritu bought expensive personal items and trips costing as much as $100,000 with her personal credit card. They say the 40-year-old then paid for the purchases with money from Indianapolis-based Network Storage Inc., where she was an operations manager. The company owners said her main tasks were paying bills and managing financial books. She earned more than $100,000 a year.
The thefts happened between 2008 and 2014.
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