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Sobbing Bookkeeper Sentenced for Stealing $4.3M From Brother’s Law Firm
Posted Jun 9, 2008, 06:45 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Bookkeeper Anthony Galasso was sentenced to 2½ to 7½ years in prison Friday for embezzling $4.3 million from his brother’s law firm.
Galasso sobbed and said he didn’t know what he was doing when he took the money from the Long Island law firm, Galasso, Langione, Catterson & LoFrumento, the New York Law Journal reports.
Galasso was accused of spending the money on vacations to Atlantic City casinos and the Ritz Carlton in New York, on the purchase of a Mercedes Benz, on his son's tuition at New York University Law School, and on $200,000 in tickets to concerts and sporting events.
Judge George Peck of Nassau County said the plea would not bar civil suits to recover the stolen money.
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