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From the Hilton Head Island-Packet:

September 25, 2008

BEAUFORT – A former Bluffton clerk who tried to cover up an embezzlement scheme by claiming her office at Town Hall was robbed was convicted of two felony charges Wednesday.

La-Tonya Chisolm, 35, of Hilton Head Island, was sentenced to five years in state prison, but she probably will serve only 18 months.  She will then be on probation for five years. She also has to pay the town $4,640 in restitution, the amount she was convicted of stealing…

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