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Greed drove a York University business manager to purloin almost $1.6 million from her employer to finance her jet-setting life, said a Superior Court judge.

“Vittoria Caparello saw fit to defraud her employer from 2005 to 2012. This was not a quick cash grab from a till,” said Justice Kelly Byrne in sentencing the 56-year-old Maple mother of two to three years imprisonment earlier. She pleaded guilty last year.

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“This fraud spanned seven years with 285 fraudulent transactions. And but for getting caught, it might still be continuing,” said Byrne.

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Caparello wrote cheques to her own bogus companies — which provided no goods nor services to York — and deposited the money into her and her spouse’s accounts.

“This was a well thought out, deliberate plan that was executed with success, time and time again,” said Byrne.

She disagreed with Caparello’s lawyer Rob Lepore that the crime “lacked sophistication.