Starting successful 2013, Jamie Petrone would bid millions successful electronics for Yale School of Medicine, vessel it to different institution successful speech for money.
HARTFORD, Conn. — A erstwhile Naugatuck nonmigratory and worker astatine Yale University School of Medicine was sentenced to 9 years successful situation for stealing $40 cardinal successful electronics.
Jamie Petrone, 43, of Lithia Springs, Georgia was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant successful Hartford to 109 months of imprisoned, followed by 3 years of supervised merchandise for fraud and taxation discourtesy related to her theft of the $40 cardinal worthy of machine and physics hardware from the Yale University School of Medicine.
According to tribunal documents and statements successful court, opening successful 2008, Petrone worked astatine Yale University School of Medicine successful the Department of Emergency Medicine, yet serving arsenic the Director of Finance and Administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Part of her occupation was to marque and authorize definite purchases for the section arsenic agelong arsenic the acquisition was beneath $10,000.
Starting arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2013, Petrone began a strategy wherever she'd bid oregon person others moving for her to bid millions of dollars of physics hardware from Yale utilizing Yale University School of Medicine funds and arranged to vessel the stolen hardware to an out-of-state concern for wealth successful return.
In Petrone's scheme, she falsely represented connected Yale interior forms and successful physics connection that the hardware was for Yale University School of Medicine needs, specified arsenic antithetic studies, and she broke down the fraudulent orders into purchases beneath $10,000. The out-of-state business, which resold the physics equipment, paid Petrone by wiring funds into an relationship of a institution successful which she owns, Maziz Entertainment LLC.
Officials said Petrone caused Yale University School of Medicine to suffer $40,504,200. Petrone utilized the wealth for assorted idiosyncratic expenses, including costly cars, existent property and travel.
Officials said Petrone did not wage taxes connected the wealth she got from selling the stolen equipment. She filed mendacious national taxation returns for the 2013 done 2016 taxation years, successful which she falsely claimed arsenic concern expenses the costs of the stolen equipment, and failed to record immoderate national taxation returns for the 2017 done 2020 taxation years. This caused a nonaccomplishment of $6,416,618 to the U.S. Treasury.
Petrone was arrested connected September 3, 2021, and connected March 28, 2022, she pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of ligament fraud and 1 number of filing a mendacious taxation return.
Judge Bryant ordered Petrone to marque afloat restitution. Petrone has agreed to forfeit $560,421.14 that was seized from the Maziv Entertainment LLC slope relationship arsenic portion of the investigation, a 2014 Mercedes-Benz G550, a 2017 Land Rover/Range Rover SV Autobiography, a 2015 Cadillac Escalade Premium, a 2020 Mercedes Benz Model E450A, a 2016 Cadillac Escalade, and a 2018 Dodge Charger. She besides has agreed to the liquidation of 3 Connecticut properties that she owns oregon co-owns to assistance fulfill her restitution obligation. A spot she owns successful Georgia is besides taxable to seizure and liquidation.
Petrone was taken into custody pursuing the sentencing proceeding.
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