8/29/13 - A Howell man will learn his fate next week in an embezzlement scheme involving stolen equipment from local General Motors warehouses. 38-year-old Jeffrey Eastom, the said ring-leader of the group, was convicted by a local jury of embezzling more than $100,000. He was scheduled to be sentenced Thursday but that has now been adjourned out one week. Eastom worked as a supervisor for Ideal Setech in Howell, which housed property for General Motors at a time when it was closing plants. Prosecutors maintained that Eastom would manipulate inventory lists of machinery, tools and metal materials between March of 2008 and January of 2010, which were then sold for scrap. Four co-defendants were charged in the case and have all now been sentenced to jail time on embezzlement charges, as well as ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $471,369. Two received lesser sentences after reaching plea deals with prosecutors and testifying against Eastom during his trial. (JM)
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