The former bookkeeper of a law firm based in Ocean County, New Jersey
was sentenced to 21 months for defrauding her former employer by
stealing more than $500,000 from the firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman
announced.
Sharon Wetter, 53, of Forked River, New Jersey, previously pleaded
guilty before U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper to an information
charging her with one count of mail fraud. Judge Cooper imposed the
sentence today in Trenton federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Wetter admitted that between 2004 and October 2010, she embezzled
from her former employer, referred to in court documents only as the
“law firm,” by wrongfully writing checks from the bank accounts of the
firm to pay her outstanding personal credit card balances and to make
car payments. Wetter concealed those payments by altering the law firm’s
electronic books and records to make it appear that the checks were for
legitimate business expenses. Wetter, who had access to checks and bank
accounts in order to perform her duties as the firm’s bookkeeper, used
that access to divert more than $500,000.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Cooper sentenced Wetter to
three years of supervised release and ordered Wetter to make restitution
in the amount of $521,596.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the Red Bank
Resident Agency of the FBI, under the direction of Acting Special Agent
in Charge David Velazquez, for their work in the investigation of this
case.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Harvey Bartle of the U.S. Attorney’s Trenton Office.
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