Ex-manager sentenced in restaurant theft
By Gabrielle Banks, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A former manager at More restaurant in Oakland who had worked there for decades was sentenced yesterday to 26 to 52 months in prison for embezzling nearly a half million dollars from the family business.
Tina Marie Horn, 46, of Oakland, was ordered to pay the More family $400,624 in restitution, continue drug and alcohol treatment, and serve five years’ probation.
As Common Pleas Judge Randal B. Todd rendered his sentence, restaurant owner Elisa More, who said she had considered Ms. Horn “like family” during her 28 years of employment, burst into tears.
When the defendant left the room in handcuffs, escorted by a sheriff’s deputy, her mother collapsed onto the courtroom floor and was taken away on a stretcher minutes later. Before that commotion, a tipstaff had asked the defendant’s sister to leave the courtroom because she was laughing and making comments to the victims. more…
