Georgia Brazier, the former office manager for a Williamsburg dental practice was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for embezzling more than $225,000 from her employers.
The crime occurred from Dec. 1997 through Sept. 2002, effectively doubling Georgia L. Brazier's salary during those years, said Williamsburg-James City County Commonwealth's Attorney Mike McGinty.
It hurt all the employees at Bennett Butler & Associates on Bacon Avenue because their profit-sharing benefits and bonuses were affected, McGinty said.
The theft was discovered after Brazier left her job -- and the office's income went up right away, McGinty said.
With the help of her family, Brazier, 56, paid $70,000 in restitution Monday, McGinty said. He said the judge ordered her to pay another $160,000 in restitution.
"Mrs. Brazier methodically betrayed our trust, as well as her co--workers and used it for her own personal gain and enjoyment," said Cory Butler, one of the dentists the defendant worked for. "Her actions were deceitful, selfish, malicious and manipulative." The sentence should send a message to others who consider embezzling money, Butler said.
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