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SOUTH BEND, IN—The former owner of a now-defunct printing company has been sentenced to 63 months in a federal prison for embezzlement. James Wheeler, of Boynton Beach, FL, was convicted last September of stealing money deducted from the paychecks of about 50 employees at Gallery Graphics in Indiana, according to the South Bend Tribune. Wheeler was accused in two charges of pilfering more than $53,000 in health insurance premiums and 401(k) contributions. Unpaid employee insurance premiums resulted in the loss of health coverage, and the workers suffered a total loss of more than $160,000. Wheeler has been ordered to pay about $211,000 in restitution, the paper

SOUTH BEND, IN—The former owner of a now-defunct printing company has been sentenced to 63 months in a federal prison for embezzlement. James Wheeler of Boynton Beach, FL, was convicted last September of stealing money deducted from the paychecks of about 50 employees of Gallery Graphics, based here, according to the South Bend Tribune. Wheeler was accused in two charges of pilfering more than $53,000 in health insurance premiums and 401(k) contributions. Unpaid employee insurance premiums resulted in the loss of health coverage, and the employees suffered a total loss of more than $160,000. Wheeler has been ordered to pay about $211,000 in restitution, the paper

SOUTH BEND, IN—Six weeks prior to its official opening and less than a year after groundbreaking ceremonies, Bowne & Co.'s South Bend manufacturing facility printed more than a half-million merger documents. The new facility, which became fully operational on Aug. 4, represents a 25 percent increase in web press capacity for Bowne, and is budgeted to produce the print component for roughly $100 million in sales. Bowne, as a whole, recorded fiscal year 1997 revenues of $716 million. The South Bend plant, strategically located to serve the Midwestern market, is expected to handle overflow mutual fund and financial printing from Bowne sites around the

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