Condo manager jailed three years for $200K theft

LONGBOAT KEY — Judy Paul, a former manager at Sand Cay, a Longboat Key condo-resort complex, was sentenced to a three-year prison term in a $200,000 fraud case.

A Manatee County jury convicted Paul in July on charges of grand theft of more than $100,000 and of scheming to defraud in the amount of $50,000 or more. Manatee County 12th Judicial Circuit Judge Thomas Krug, in a sentence handed down Sept. 13, ordered Paul, 49, to pay $200,000 restitution to Sand Cay, in addition to the prison term.

Authorities allege Paul took about 50 checks made out to Sand Cay worth $216,000 from 2006 to 2009. She then used the money for personal use, according to a story in the Longboat Observer, sister paper of the Business Observer. Paul's purchases included spa treatments, Victoria's Secret items, plane tickets and accessories for her Corvette, Sand Cay board member Bob Fisher says.