A Montgomery Village woman who admitted to embezzling $248,000 from her elderly mother will serve 10 days in jail due to her ailing condition, a Montgomery County judge ruled this week.
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert A. Greenberg was unmoved by the appearance of 64-year-old Lynda Cardinali LaTour, who arrived in a wheelchair Wednesday afternoon for her sentencing hearing.
LaTour pleaded guilty to embezzlement before Greenberg on May 16.
Greenberg took a brief recess after hearing from both attorneys in the case to weigh LaTour’s punishment against her poor health and medical requirements before announcing his sentence.
“Ma’am, you stole, conservatively, a couple hundred thousand dollars from the woman who brought you into this world,” Greenberg said when he returned. “It is not my wish to impose a death sentence on you.”
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4 comments:
I don't understand what her condition has to do with what she's done.
10 days and no restitution?
It's hard to comment without knowing how she did what she did.
How do we know what really happened? Maybe she had docs and the judge or prosecutor intimidated her, cause they want at it!
I THINK IT IS EASY TO PASS JUDGEMENT ON SOMEONE WITHOUT KNOWING THE WOHLE INTIRE STORY.
ANYONE WHO WAS BEEN IN COURT WILL TELL YOU HOW INFLATED THE RESTITUTION CAN BE.
FOR ALL WE KNOW SHE HAD A HORRIBLE
CHILDHOOD.
"LET US NOT JUDGE YET YE BE JUDGED"
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