A divided 11th District Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas properly sentenced an embezzler to prison despite a plea agreement that included an agreed-upon sentence of community control. The defendant, Richard Chesler, was the son-in-law of the victim, James Adair, at the time that he committed his offenses. According to the statement of facts provided by the court of appeals and derived from information presented during Chesler’s sentencing hearing, between 2004 and 2012 Chesler was employed as a bookkeeper with The Catholic Tour, LLC, a company that specializes in organizing pilgrimages to the...
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