Accountant Sentenced in Roslyn School Scandal

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- An outside accountant who admitted helping several top officials steal millions from an affluent Long Island school district was sentenced Wednesday to four months behind bars and five years probation, The Associated Press reported.

The sentence for Andrew Miller came over the protests of prosecutors who urged a Nassau County judge to ignore a plea bargain and impose a term of 2-to-6 years on the felony charge of tampering with public records. Miller pleaded guilty in December, when he agreed to a six-month jail term.

"I've never seen the district attorney's office go to the lengths it has gone to pressure the court" into handing down a longer term, said Nassau County Court Judge Alan Honorof before he cut two months off the agreed sentence.

Miller sat weeping at the defense table through most of the sentencing, even as defense attorney William Petillo told the court, "He was not in bed with the thieves."

-- NYSSCPA.org News Staff

Posted on 1/25/06