When 40-year-old Lanette Sansoni embezzled $500,000 from the company she worked for at the time, JRS Settlement Services Inc., she had to figure she’d get caught eventually, do some jail time, and that’d be it.  However, when she was caught and tried, she got a very unusual sentence.  Sansoni got a staggering 21 years of house arrest.  That’s right, she’s not going to prison, she’s being forced to stay at her home in Warminster, Pennsylvania, at the request of her former employers!

JRS Settlement went out of business thanks to Sansoni’s theft, and the owners decided that they didn’t want to punish the woman, they wanted their money back.  So, Sansoni got house arrest with the conditions that she can only leave the house to go to work or look for a higher-paying job until she pays back the money that was stolen.  She’s already managed to return about half of what she owed her old company; her lawyer says she should have no problems paying back the $750-per-month requested by Judge Joseph Smyth.

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