A former bookkeeper for a Lower Southampton Township law firm was sentenced Thursday, June 26, 2025, to serve time in county for systematically stealing more than $800,000 from her employer over six years.
Reese Esther Paul, 66, of Holland, Northampton Township, received 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. President Judge Raymond F. McHugh also ordered Paul to pay $839,816.41 in restitution to the Law Office of Rovner, Allen, Rovner, Zimmerman, Sigman and Schmidt.
Paul pleaded guilty in March to orchestrating a scheme that embezzled $822,816.41 from the firm between December 20, 2017, and December 29, 2023. Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc J. Furber noted that Paul has yet to take significant steps toward liquidating assets to repay the stolen funds. Paul did make a restitution payment of $100,000 at the time of sentencing…