Welch woman gets 2 years for embezzlement

Updated: May 6, 2008 - 8:49 PM

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A 58-year-old woman who admitted to embezzling nearly a half-million dollars from her Inver Grove Heights employer was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to two years in prison.

Janet S. Pederson, of Welch, Minn., must also serve five years of supervised release and make more than $448,000 in restitution to cover the amount she stole.

According to the plea agreement:

Pederson embezzled the money from North American Trailer Sales from January 2001 to July 2005. As the office and human resources manager, she had access to the company's checking account. She wrote business checks to her personal bank and credit card accounts, forged signatures of the people authorized to sign the checks and made false entries in the company books.

PAUL WALSH