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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Woman steals $1 million from Mark Twain's house

A former employee of author Mark Twain's historic Connecticut home who admitted to embezzling more than $1 million from it in a long-running scheme was sentenced on Monday to 3-1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of and taxes on the stolen funds.

Judge Warren Eginton of U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut, sentenced Donna Gregor, 58, of East Hartford to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release for the theft, David Fein, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, said in a statement.

According to court documents and in-court statements, Gregor used two different methods to embezzle $1,080,811 from Hartford's Mark Twain House between 2002 and 2010, and used the proceeds for theater tickets, dining out, mortgage payments, home improvements and credit card and car payments, Fein said.   More Read

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