Sentencing for woman who pleaded guilty to embezzling from MATC

MILWAUKEE -- 44-year-old Kristin Seimits, the woman accused of embezzling more than a quarter million dollars from Milwaukee Area Technical College was sentenced Tuesday morning, June 26th.

A Milwaukee County judge sentenced Seimits to three years in prison, plus another three years of extended supervision for one of the two counts against her.

On the second count, the judge stayed the sentence (of three years in prison and three years of extended supervision) and placed Seimits on probation for six years.

Seimits agreed in May to plead guilty to two counts of theft in the case. Prosecutors say she used the school’s credit cards to buy everything from personal computers to cars from 2005 through 2011. Seimits served as the purchasing manager at MATC before resigning in September of 2011.

"She was the employee who was supposed to prevent this from happening," Assistant District Attorney David Feiss said.

Seimits blamed her actions on an eating disorder during her sentencing hearing.

"It was due to a mental illness, if you wanna call it that, that I've had for 28 years. What happened here came only out of a lack of self-worth and need that I felt to buy people that I wanted to love me, to buy their attention and their love," Seimits said.

"There are other public officials who are out there and who look at these types of sentencings and they should understand that even if you come in and you promise to pay it all back, you're still gonna go to prison for taking that much money from the public," Feiss said.

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