OREGON/NEW JERSEY
The Oregonian
By Bryan Denson | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on November 13, 2015
A Portland judge sentenced a 73-year-old psychologist Friday to six months of home confinement for bilking a Catholic diocese in New Jersey out of more than $100,000 for services she did not perform.
Carol Landesman of Gresham also must pay full restitution and undergo mental health treatment, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman ordered.
Landesman attended the hearing, but didn’t speak.
Federal prosecutors described her in court papers as “extremely remorseful,” with no criminal record. She has relinquished her psychologist’s license and is unlikely to reoffend, they said.
She wrote an apology full of contrition to the court and the archdiocese, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Claire M. Fay after Landesman’s sentencing. The letter, which was not part of the public record, “certainly persuaded me,” she said.
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