Ex-treasurer gets prison for stealing $5.7M from Mahopac volunteer firefighters

  • Source: New York Post
  • Published: 06/21/2017 04:54 PM

More than a dozen angry members of the Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department showed up to a White Plains courtroom on Wednesday to watch their former treasurer get sentenced to over six years in prison for stealing $5.7 million from the department’s coffers. Federal Judge Cathy Seibel called Michael Klein’s thefts — pulled off in 275 transactions over 13 years — “mind-blowing” before sentencing him to 77 months in prison. Seibel also ordered Klein to pay restitution of $5.5 million, including $4.5 million to the all-volunteer fire department, which has had its budget slashed as a result of Klein’s thefts.



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