Gary M. Kaczmarek, 46, also has been sentenced by U.S. Senior Judge Gustave Diamond to 18 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud and making and uttering forged securities.
U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said Kaczmarek, of 1224 Fourth St., must pay restitution to Value Added Processing Inc. in East Pittsburgh, a specialty steel company where he worked as an accountant.
He stole the money by forging authorized signatures on 20 bogus checks payable to himself and drawn from the company’s Sky Bank account. The money was stolen over a one-year period, beginning in April 2004.