Manassas Man Gets 15 Months in Prison for Stealing $370,000

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A Manassas man received a 15-month sentence in federal prison last week for embezzling more than $370,000 from a Fairfax medical practice.

Brandon Scott Hoffman, 37, also was ordered to pay nearly $272,000 in restitution and forfeit his criminal proceeds, according to the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Hoffman was sentenced Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria.

Hoffman pleaded guilty on Feb. 6. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also sentenced him on Thursday to three years of supervised release after he’s released from prison.

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According to court documents, from 2004 through 2014, Hoffman worked as a medical biller and officer manager for a medical practice in Fairfax.

Beginning in 2009 and continuing through February 2014, he intercepted 439 checks from health insurance companies made payable to the medical practice, forged the doctor’s signature or signed his own signature, and deposited the checks into his own personal bank account, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.