A former Savannah finance company employee has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1.6 million in forged checks to keep up a gambling habit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Dean Emerson Flake, 58, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison on a guilty plea of committing bank fraud in the check-writing scheme, authorities said. He will have 13 months of home confinement following the prison stint plus three years of supervised release.

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