Eden woman gets 41 months for fraud

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A Vermont bookkeeper who pleaded guilty to a series of frauds dating back 10 years was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in prison.

Deborah Whitney, 43, of Eden, who defrauded a Morrisville department store and others of $673,768, also was ordered to repay the victims. The biggest one was Arthur’s Department Store, in Morrisville, where Whitney worked as a bookkeeper in the 1990s and early 2000s and wrote checks to herself, forging the signature of owner Arthur Breault.

She was ordered to pay $556,488 to the store’s proprietors.

Prosecutors say she also defrauded Stanley Wescome Construction, in Eden, and tried to block civil and criminal litigation stemming from that fraud, including destroying evidence, which a judge called "outrageous."

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