Woman Gets 21 Years House Arrest for Theft on Condition She Repay Ex-Employer
A Philadelphia office manager who admitted to stealing almost a half-million dollars from her boss was sentenced to a 21-year house arrest, unless she repays the man first.
Lanette Sansoni, who worked for title company owner Kenneth Slomine, has repaid $180,000 of her debt so far, after selling her home. She now lives with her mother, according to the Associated Press, and has a job that pays $700 a week.
As part of her sentence, a Montgomery County, Penn, judge set Sansoni’s repayment schedule at $750 a month. She has the court’s permission to leave home for work, and if the payments stop she could go to jail.
The government unsuccessfully sought jail time for Sansoni, on the basis that the money she took from Slomine was used for vacations, jewelry and designer handbags. Slomine, whose business has since closed, is more interested in restitution than punishment, according to Sansoni’s defense lawyer, A. Charles Peruto Jr.
According to the Philadelphia Intelligencer, Slomine learned of Sansoni’s actions in 2009, when Capital One Bank informed him that company checks were being used to pay credit card bills for Sansoni, her daughter and her mother.
