Jairo Tomas Santos, the former office manager of a San Francisco law firm, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for his involvement in a bank fraud and embezzlement scheme. Santos was also ordered to repay almost $1.2 million as part of his restitution. These details were announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday.
According to the information gathered, Santos confessed to embezzling more than $1.1 million from his ex-employer. He accomplished this by signing checks made out to himself from the firm, forging the signature of the senior partner in the process.
Santos was initially charged with three counts of bank fraud and later pleaded guilty to one. Following his guilty plea, U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup dismissed the other two charges. In addition to the prison time and restitution, Judge Alsup sentenced Santos to a five-year supervised release period.
More insights about this case can be found in the original report by Bloomberg Law Automation and the official Justice Department announcement.