Former employee of Minn. medical device company pleads guilty to ‘theft by swindle’

Michael Walter | | Radiology Business | Economics

A former employee of PenRad, a Buffalo, Minn.-based medical device company, has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of “theft by swindle” for stealing more than $900,000 from the company for her own personal use.

According to a report from the Minnesota Star Tribune, Karen J. Breyette was sentenced to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay $924,770.78.

Breyette was hired by PenRad in 2008 and began stealing from the company just five months later.  

“At sentencing, Breyette apologized to PenRad Technologies officials, who were in attendance,” the Star Tribune reported. “She pledged to begin a new and better chapter in her life upon her release from prison.”

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