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BOSTON (AP) - A bookkeeper was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzling $6.9 million from a company to spend on such things as a ranch in Vermont, a life-size statue of Al Capone and a private performance by singer Burt Bacharach.
"I'm very ashamed for what I did," a tearful Angela Buckborough Platt, 43, told Judge William Young in federal court Thursday.
Buckborough was ordered to repay $4.48 million in restitution, plus interest, to her former employer, J&J Materials of Rehoboth, Mass. She pleaded guilty in February to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property.
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