Blairsville, Pa, woman to serve 3 years in prison for defrauding employer

A Blairsville woman has been sentenced to 3½ years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding her employer in her role as bookkeeper for an Indiana medical office.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh said Sandra Jo Doak, 63,
embezzled funds totaling approximately $592,833 from the medical office of Matthew Klain, using that money for personal expenses such as sporting events and travel.

Evidence produced when Doak pleaded guilty in August 2021 showed she engaged in deceptive acts to conceal the embezzlement of
$536,887.21 in unauthorized checks written by Doak to herself;
$26,519.26 in unauthorized checks written by Doak for personal expenditures;
and $29,426.83 in unauthorized checks used to pay for Doak’s personal expenses on the Klain office’s credit card.

U.S. Attorney Cindy K. Chung said Doak also concealed the embezzled income from the Internal Revenue Service on her personal income tax returns between 2014 and 2019, and was ordered by U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon to pay $123,849 to the IRS in restit

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