NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A New Orleans man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for an embezzlement scam in which he skimmed nearly $1.8 million from his employer’s payroll to pay off his casino debts.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite says in a news release that Paul Gardner was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown.
Polite says he 57-year-old Gardner was also ordered to pay the money back to his former employer, Clovelly Oil.
Prosecutors say Gardner used his position as a part-time bookkeeper to divert a cut of the biweekly payroll to himself.
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