Former Accountant Gets Prison In Fraud Scheme

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former Mandeville accountant has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for stealing more than $170,000 from an oilfield consulting business and defrauding a hair salon on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain out of at least $40,000.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. on Wednesday sentenced 61-year-old Anthony Tulli to 41 months in prison and ordered him to pay restitution to his victims.

Tulli also pleaded guilty in October 2011 to failing to submit more than $800,000 in federal taxes to the IRS for a scrap metal company also based on the north shore.