SANTA CRUZ CO. (BCN) — A convicted embezzler has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution after unlawfully using his employer’s credit cards and forging checks, the Santa Cruz County district attorney said Thursday.
Salvatore Talamo, who worked as an employee of the Paradise Park Masonic Club in 2013, already had a previous conviction for credit card fraud. He was sentenced to three years in state prison, and ordered to pay $221,866 in restitution, according to the district attorney.
Prosecutors said Talamo embezzled from the Paradise Park Masonic Club by forging a number of checks and using the park’s credit cards to buy a vehicle and event tickets, as well as paying for household expenses and internet pornography.
Talamo was convicted on similar charges in a federal case in 2001, according to prosecutors, and he allegedly stole money from another employer in Los Angeles County in 2007.