Meriden Woman Sentenced For Stealing From Employer: Feds

MERIDEN, CT — A former Meriden resident was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for stealing from her employer in connection with health care, according to authorities. Yolanda Silverio, 54, of Austin, Texas, was also sentenced this week to three years of supervised release and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service, U.S. States Attorney for Connecticut John H. Durham announced in a press release.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Silverio was employed as an Eligibility Coordinator for a Connecticut company that administers trust funds for public and private sector health benefit plans. As Eligibility Coordinator, Silverio received checks from individual participants in a particular health plan as payment for their union-related health benefits. Between May 2013 and July 2014, Silverio deposited 49 benefit checks totaling $35,461.34 into her own bank accounts, according to authorities.

“In 2004, Silverio was convicted in federal court for embezzling more than $105,000 from two Connecticut businesses by forging signatures on business checks and was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment, with five months to serve in home detention with electronic monitoring,” Durham wrote in a press release. “Silverio’s supervised release was subsequently revoked and she was sentenced to an additional six months of imprisonment for failure to make a required lump sum restitution payment and for material misrepresentations to her probation officer.”

Silverio was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $35,461.34, and to notify any future employers in writing of her two prior fraud convictions. She pleaded guilty last February.

Silverio, who is released on a $15,000 bond, was ordered to report to prison on March 26.

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