Worker sentenced for embezzlement
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Published: April 22, 2008
A former postal worker from Readsboro has been sentenced to six months of house arrest in an embezzlement scheme, according to federal prosecutors.
Rita Bolognani, 48, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to three years probation, with six months house arrest to be served. She was also ordered to pay $46,395 in restitution for misappropriation of postal funds, federal prosecutors said in a release Monday.
According to court records, Bolognani worked as a part-time postal employee in the Readsboro post office. Beginning in November 2006, and continuing until May 2007 she issued postal money orders to pay personal bills without paying for the money orders, prosecutors said.
Investigation by the postal service determined that she issued 76 money orders without making corresponding payments to the postal service over six months.
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