Patent analyst gets 18 months for stealing $534,000
ALEXANDRIA — A former financial analyst for the Patent and Trademark Office has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from a government account.
A former boyfriend who helped her received an identical sentence.
Thirty-nine-year old Karen L. Parish of Woodbridge pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to embezzling roughly $534,000 over a seven-year period. She paid the money to accounts controlled by 50-year-old Michael H. Reid of Fort Washington, Md. The two would split the money.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of two years and three months.
Parish was also ordered to make restitution, but in court records she said the money has all been spent.
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They might reduce the amount of restitution, but no, she will be giving a part of her future wages toward repayment.
I don’t get it. Does that mean that if you have already spent the money, you don’t have to make restitution?
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