Sentencing set for former Vermont state worker in $490,000 embezzlement

Sentencing set for former Vermont state worker in $490,000 embezzlement

RUTLAND, Vt. — A former state Department for Children and Families supervisor who says she has a gambling addiction is being sentenced for her role in a $490,000 embezzlement scheme.

Forty-seven-year-old Kathy Lantagne, of Charleston, got the state to issue more than 250 checks that she and her sister then cashed, keeping the proceeds. She pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud, theft from a program that receives federal funds and filing a false tax return.

She's being sentenced Thursday in federal court in Rutland.