Ex-Burnham clerk gets 18 months for $650,000 theft

CHICAGO (AP) — A 70-year-old former village clerk was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for stealing more than $650,000 from her suburban Chicago community and spending much of it at casinos, federal prosecutors said.

Nancy Dobrowski pleaded guilty in May as part of a plea deal to wire fraud and filing false tax returns. She held the elected position of Burnham clerk for more than 30 years before she resigned last year.