Chris Kunitz’s ex-nanny gets five years in prison after jewelry theft

Andrea Forsythe was the nanny for Pittsburgh Penguins forward Chris Kunitz three years ago when his wife, Maureen Kunitz, noticed she was missing a pair of earrings that he had given her as a birthday gift. They were appraised at $11,900, so this was something one might miss.

Turns out Forsythe stole them. And then she sold a loose diamond from them to a jewelry store for $2,542 and then another earring for $1,408.50.

Next month, she’ll be sentenced for that theft and another alleged jewelry pilfering of items worth over $15,000. But she’s already been sentenced to five years in federal prison, thanks to a ruling on Tuesday, for setting fire to her residence and then filing a fraudulent insurance claim — namely, that the jewels she stole from the other couple were inside that residence.

It was during that investigation that the theft of Maureen Kunitz’s jewelry was revealed.

From the AP:

U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon refused Finkelstein’s request to allow Forsythe’s federal sentence to run concurrently to whatever sentence she receives next month saying the theft victims ”deserve their own justice, so to speak, and the court will not intervene here.”

However, the county judge could still order that sentence to run concurrent to the federal sentence. If that happens, Forsythe would get credit for serving both terms simultaneously, instead of serving them one after the other.

Bottom line: She’ll be stealing some time in prison for all of it.

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