Bergen Investment Swindler Who Lived the High Life Gets 56 Months

John Eichner, former CFO of the North Jersey-based Harold M. Pitman Company, was sentenced to 56 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution for cooking expense reimbursement forms at his business so he could live the high life.

Looking at a much longer stretch had he been convicted at a trial, Eichner—a Hofstra University grad from Montvale who once worked for KPMG Peat Marwick—admitted last November that he submitted a stack of reimbursement requests for luxury hotel and resort stays, meals at pricey restaurants, clothing and jewelry from, among others, Nordstrom, Coach, and Tiffany