Apr 28, 2002 By Jennifer Harr 2 min read

After Lisa Nypaver paid nearly $25,000 in restitution for checks she embezzled from her former employer, Fayette County President Judge William J. Franks sentenced her to six to 23 months on house arrest. Nypaver, 31, of Uniontown pleaded guilty to numerous forgery charges last month. State police charged that she signed the name of former employer Dr. J. Kimberly Karschner to personal, insurance and Medicare checks and pocketed the money.

Nypaver worked as a billing clerk and then bookkeeper for Karschner. The checks were forged between October 1999 and February 2001. Some of the checks were written to Nypaver from Karschner’s personal account.

Nypaver was charged with the forgery scheme last year, and was given house arrest only because she repaid the stolen money.

District Attorney Nancy D. Vernon proposed a six- to 24-month sentence that included state jail time if Nypaver were unable to pay back Karschner before her sentencing.

Police said Nypaver forged 66 checks during her employment with Karschner.

Before accepting the plea offer in March, Nypaver and her attorney, David Kaiser, had continued her pretrial four times.

Kaiser said during the numerous delay requests that he was waiting for handwriting results from a state police expert.

It is uncertain what those results were, as a report was not put into Nypaver’s criminal file in the clerk of courts office.

Before her sentencing, Nypaver remained free on $10,000 unsecured bond.