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DA: Ex-Suffolk Red Cross official sentenced in theft

Former American Red Cross employee Deborah Leggio, who

Photo credit: James Carbone | Former American Red Cross employee Deborah Leggio, who was convicted in the theft of more than $274,000 from the organization, arrives at court in Riverhead for sentencing. (Feb. 27, 2013)

A compulsive shopper who embezzled a quarter-million dollars from the Suffolk chapter of the American Red Cross while she was its financial director was sentenced Wednesday to 21/3 years to 7 years in prison.

Deborah Leggio, 50, a former Coram resident who now lives in Tracy, Calif., outside of San Francisco, admitted before Judge Richard Ambro in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead that she...

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