A former credit supervisor at a Melville, N.Y.-based healthcare products distributor has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for embezzling $1.6 million from the company over four years.
Tony Ream, 35, of Greenville, S.C., was sentenced Sept. 24 by U.S. District Judge Sanket J. Bulsara, who also ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine and $1.6 million in restitution.
Mr. Ream worked for what the Justice Department described as the world’s largest provider of healthcare solutions for dental and medical practitioners.
From October 2020 through November 2024, Ream wire-transferred funds from customer refund accounts — some inactive — to his own personal accounts, recording each transaction as a customer refund to conceal the scheme. He also directed subordinates to take steps that unknowingly facilitated the fraud. Ream spent the stolen funds on his wedding, luxury international travel and a failed restaurant venture in South Carolina, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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