United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas

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Dallas, Texas 75242-1699

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DALLAS PLASTIC SURGEON’S OFFICE MANAGER SENTENCED TO
MORE THAN 3 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE,
FOR EMBEZZLING NEARLY $600,000 FROM EMPLOYER

Richard B. Roper, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, announced that Eryn Pressley-Vevers was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable David C. Godbey, United States District Judge, to 37 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $486,746.71 in restitution. Some of the embezzled funds had already been paid. In August 2005, Pressley-Vevers, age 35, of Allen, Texas, waived indictment and pled guilty to an Information that charged her with one count of Bank Fraud. Judge Godbey ordered that Pressley-Vevers surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on August 7, 2006.

Pressley-Vevers admitted that during a two year period from April 2002 through April 2004, she used her position as office manager and bookkeeper for George A. Toledo, M.D., to steal nearly $600,000 of Dr. Toledo’s funds. She concealed from Toledo that she secretly issued many checks that were drawn on his bank account and payable to her. At the sentencing hearing, Dr. Toledo testified that Pressley-Vevers betrayed his trust in her and maintained two sets of books to prevent detection of her scheme from auditors and accountants. Toledo also testified that after the defendant was fired in May of 2004, she unlawfully obtained bank statements from a mail carrier in order to conceal additional evidence of her scheme. As a result of this two year scheme, Pressley-Vevers caused Compass bank to fraudulently cash a total of 81 checks payable to herself, totaling $574,746.71 ---- all drawn on the account of George A. Toledo, M.D. and each causing a loss to Compass Bank.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David Jarvis.

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