Man Gets Two Years in Prison for Stealing $750,000 From Employer
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009; 4:09 PM
A Baltimore man was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for stealing $750,000 from a District-based trade association during a 10-year span, federal prosecutors said.
James Pearson, 56, who pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud, worked for the Nuclear Energy Institute starting in 1982, prosecutors said.
Pearson acknowledged that, beginning in 1998, he ordered goods on behalf of the institute and then sold them for profit. The items included office supplies, flat-screen televisions, DVD players, video cameras, MP3 devices and computers, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman sentenced Pearson to two years and three months in prison and ordered him to pay $764,846 in restitution to his former employer.
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