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Middlesex County resident Kayla Figelski, age 34, of Malden, was sentenced on Friday, June 3, to three years in prison and two years of supervised release, according to Rachael Rollins, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
She pleaded guilty to seven counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in May of 2021, Rollins said.
According to the announcement, she was also ordered to pay $796,747 in restitution.
The US Attorney's Office said Figelski stole at least $796,747 from her employer, an elder law attorney in Malden, from about April of 2017 through June of 2019.
She would forge checks to herself from her employer's checking accounts, including accounts her employer maintained for senior citizen clients and their estates, Rollins said.
Figelski would then deposit the checks into her bank account and withdraw the funds or cash the checks directly, the report said.
The US Attorney's Office said Figelski hid the scheme by changing bank statements to appear as though the checks were written to legitimate vendors.
Her employer was forced to sell the building where her law practice was located, which has been in her family since 1976, due to the thefts, Rollins said.
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