Bookkeeper Gets Prison Term for Embezzlement
From Times Staff Reports
A Diamond Bar bookkeeper was sentenced Wednesday to four years and eight months in prison for embezzling $317,000 from a tire company where he kept the accounts, state tax officials said.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor ordered Santosh K. Maheshwari, 60, to pay more than $317,000 in restitution to G.T. Tire and Wheel Co. of Bellflower. Maheshwari also was ordered to pay $18,823 in delinquent state income taxes and penalties, plus the cost of the investigation.
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