A former bookkeeper who siphoned more than $800,000 from a Bucks County-based law firm with operations in New Jersey has been sentenced to county jail, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday, June 27.
Reese Esther Paul, 66, of Holland in Northampton Township, was handed a sentence of one year less a day to two years less a day in the Bucks County Correctional Facility, followed by five years of probation. She must also repay $839,816.41 to the Law Office of Rovner, Allen, Rovner, Zimmerman, Sigman and Schmidt.
Paul pleaded guilty in March to executing a scheme that embezzled $822,816.41 from the firm between Dec. 20, 2017, and Dec. 29, 2023 — including fraud that impacted its New Jersey operations…