Fletcher sentenced to 15 months for ambulance embezzlement

copyright the Chronicle May 25, 2016 

by Joseph Gresser

In June of last year, Amy C. Fletcher, 45, of Derby Line admitted to embezzling almost $290,000 from the Derby Line Ambulance (DLA). The former secretary, treasurer, and bookkeeper of the emergency squad pled guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion in U.S. District Court in Burlington.

On May 19 of this year federal Judge Garvan Murtha sentenced Ms. Fletcher to serve a 15-month prison term and pay $289,864 in restitution to the ambulance corps.

David Sleigh, Ms. Fletcher’s lawyer, tried to persuade Judge Murtha to impose a sentence that did not include time behind bars, a press release…To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘s stories, subscribe:

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