A federal jury has found a Minnesota woman guilty of embezzling more than $700,000 from the owners of several Denny’s restaurants around the Twin Cities… and from a construction company in Rochester.
After a five-day jury trial… 59-year-old Kimberly Sue Peterson-Janovec of Kenyon was convicted on 24 counts of fraud, aggravated identity theft, and tax crimes.
Authorities say Peterson-Janovec was operations director for a Denny’s franchisee that owned and operated eight Denny’s in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
After she was fired, she got another bookkeeping job with a family-owned construction company in Rochester.
Peterson-Janovec has a prior federal fraud conviction from 1998, when she embezzled more than $950,000 from another former employer.
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