VALPARAISO, Ind. — A Porter County man will spend more than two years in federal prison for embezzling over $500,000 from a staffing firm and spending the money on home repairs and luxury jewelry.

Charles Nelson, a 67-year-old Valparaiso, Indiana, resident who pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud last year, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison, Andrew Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced Wednesday.

According to prosecutors, the scheme unfolded between 2018 and 2019 while Nelson was acting as CFO of a staffing firm's Chicago office.

Prosecutors said during that period, Nelson made several unauthorized credit card purchases for his own benefit. Initially, the purchases were for meals and travel, but he eventually went on to purchase extrava

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