Man gets year in prison for embezzling $1.5M from Conn. nonprofit
BRIDGEPORT (AP) — A New York man who ran a Connecticut-based nonprofit designed to find support and resources for people with chronic pain issues has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling about $1.5 million from the organization.
Federal prosecutors in Connecticut say 47-year-old Paul Gileno, of Brewster, N.Y., was also sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and ordered to pay full restitution.
Authorities say Gileno, founder and chief executive of the Middletown-based U.S. Pain Foundation, embezzled from the foundation from 2015 until 2017 and failed to pay more than $500,000 in federal taxes on the embezzled money and other income.
Gileno pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud and tax evasion.
He was ordered to report to prison Jan. 6.
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