March 31, 2010 - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Melanie McDonald, 43, of Thetford, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington to 18 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge that she transported stolen money between Vermont and New Hampshire. Chief U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions, III also ordered that McDonald serve three years of supervised release following completion of her prison term and pay $180,000 in restitution to her two victims. The court ordered that within 10 days, McDonald make a first restitution payment of $75,000 out of life insurance proceeds she has in the bank. Because of unusual family circumstances, the court stayed execution of McDonald’s prison sentence until June 2011, when her daughter graduates from high school.
According to court records, McDonald was employed as a part-time bookkeeper by two central Valley businesses between 2001 and 2006, Dowd’s Country Inn of Lyme, NH, and Wilder Business Services, a small accounting firm in Wilder, VT. During that period, she embezzled approximately $180,000 from her two employers. The embezzlements were uncovered in 2006 and McDonald was fired. In 2007, she pleaded guilty to the federal stolen property charge.
This case was investigated by the Rutland office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New Hampshire State Police, and the Hartford (VT) Police Department.
McDonald is represented by Ian Carleton. The prosecutor is Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Waples.
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