Lynda Mae Fratis and her lawyer came to a Boulder courtroom on Friday seeking a deal with no prison time for her $750,000 embezzlement scheme — 26 years after she was sent behind bars for stealing more than seven figures from an Aspen employer.
Under the escort of jail deputies, however, she left the courtroom to start two 12-year state prison sentences, both to be served concurrently.
Fratis, 61, underwent knee surgery the day before the sentencing, and using a walker, she approached the lectern to apologize. She told the judge of her mental health struggles and spoke of her attempts at suicide after she was found out in the Boulder embezzlement case last year and the one from Aspen in the 1990s…