Ex-Tiffany exec gets year in prison for $2 million jewelry theft

I bet she would have gotten a much longer sentence if she weren't rich.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/23/22023477-ex-tiffany-exec-gets-year-in-prison-for-2-million-jewelry-theft

By Patrick Garrity, NBC News
Dec. 23, 2013

A former Tiffany & Co executive will spend a year and a day in prison for stealing and re-selling more than $2.1 million of jewelry from the store's famed Fifth Avenue location in Manhattan.

Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun, 46, a former vice president of product development, delivered a tearful apology as she expressed to a federal judge her regret for the years-long theft from her longtime employer.

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At Monday's hearing, Gardephe said Lederhaas-Okun's motivation was "difficult to explain." Lederhaas-Okun earned $360,000 a year at Tiffany from 2010 to 2012 and she and her husband, who has since the arrest sought a divorce, reported income of $700,000 to $900,000 during those years, the judge said.

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