Ex-NJ law firm CFO sentenced to five years for $1.5M embezzlement scheme

The former finance chief is required to repay the stolen funds as restitution to his former employer, the NJ AG’s office said

John Dunlea, the former CFO of a national law firm, was sentenced to a five-year term in New Jersey state prison after pleading guilty in May to embezzling over $1.5 million from his former employer, according to a Friday press release by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

Dunlea was ordered to pay over $1.5 million to his former employer, the law firm McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, as well as over $20,000 to the state of New Jersey, where he is a resident, as restitution, according to the Friday release.

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