From WCTV on 2/19/14:
A former Leon County school teacher who pled guilty to grand theft will spend a year in jail and pay back thousands of dollars in restitution to the school system.
Tammy Bennett was accused of stealing money from Chiles High School where she was a teacher and worked on the yearbook program.
Investigators said she would make up reimbursements for herself that ended up being false claims, such as: travel, equipment purchases and supply purchases.
Her attorney said she was guilty for some of the false reimbursements, but said some of the missing money came from a bookkeeping mistake.
Auditors estimate she cost the school district close to $200,000. At her sentencing Tuesday afternoon, the judge sentenced Bennett to 11 months and 29 days in jail and ordered her to pay back an amount just short of $157,000 between Leon County Schools and a yearbook insurance company.
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