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Woman gets 3-years-plus for embezzling

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Posted 8:17AM on Tuesday 2nd April 2002 ( 23 years ago )
ATLANTA - A woman who embezzled more than $700,000 from her non-profit employer and invested much of it in a private business venture that offered entertainment by nude male dancers has been sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison. <br> <br> Thirty-six-year-old Janice Marie Sanders of Doraville also must pay $726,529 in restitution and serve three years supervised release. She was sentenced Monday. <br> <br> Sanders stole the money while performing accounting duties and writing grant applications for The National Faculty, a non-profit organization that uses federal funds to provide teachers with mentoring and training. <br> <br> Sanders pleaded guilty in January to embezzlement charges and admitted arranging to have 737 checks, totaling about $715,348, issued to herself and the dance group, ``Hot Chocolate LLC,&#39;&#39; between February 1996 and July 2001.

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