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| | AP Wire | 10/11/2006 | Former medical lobby staffer sentenced for embezzling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Verden's attorney, Seth Kirschenbaum, said his client started stealing the money when her family was swept up in a "financial tsunami." Verden's husband lost his job after contracting MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and she needed help paying medical bills, he said. |
 | | Verden was one of only two people in the accounting department, one of only 23 people in the office," said prosecutor Laura Millendorf. |
 | | Verden was a mere bookkeeper, a clerk, who at $30,000 a year supervised no one but was supervised by everyone," he said. |
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