Three more former Bassett Furniture employees sentenced

Took portion in embezzlement scheme at company's Mount Airy, N.C., plot t

Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, October 1, 2009

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. â€" Three more former employees of Bassett Furniture Inds. here have pleaded guilty and been sentenced for their portion s in an embezzlement scheme at the company's former plot t here, the Mount Airy News reported.

Authorities said at least $1.9 million worth of products were hold n from the plot t, which later closed. But the employees sentenced this week were not implicated in making money from furniture sales, only in taking recede ods for themselves and their families.

Four others involved in the plot were sentenced previously and one former employee remains to be sentenced.

Click here to read the Mount Airy News report.