Sudbury Man Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for $8 Million Medical Practice Embezzlement

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A Sudbury, Massachusetts man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating an embezzlement scheme that drained nearly $8 million from two separate medical practices where he was employed, federal authorities announced.

Adam Gentile received his sentence on Thursday, Aug. 27, in U.S. U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Guzman ordered Gentile to serve four years of supervised release following his prison term and mandated that he pay $7.8 million in restitution. Gentile pleaded guilty on March 31 to three counts of wire fraud.

Anatomy of a Multi-Year Payroll Scheme

According to the Department of Justice, Gentile’s first wave of embezzlement began shortly after he was hired in 2014 as an administrative assistant at an initial medical practice. Tasked with handling payroll duties, Gentile systematically issued himself unauthorized extra paychecks disguised as “bonuses” between 2015 and 2020. By the time that scheme ended, he had stolen $4.5 million from that business.

Moving on to a second medical practice in 2020, Gentile repeated the illicit playbook. From 2021 through 2024, federal investigators found that he continued issuing unauthorized bonus payments, siphoning off an additional $3.3 million from that second business. Investigators stated that Gentile used the stolen funds for personal enrichment, including paying off credit cards, funding a side business, and upgrading a home he owned in Hudson, Massachusetts.

Restitution, Asset Seizure, and Legal Next Steps

To satisfy the multi-million-dollar restitution order, Judge Guzman ordered that Gentile’s home be seized for forfeiture, with all proceeds from its eventual sale directed toward the victims. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kaitlin J. Brown prosecuted the financial fraud case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Guzman permitted Gentile to remain out on pretrial conditions and self-report to federal prison on Dec. 28.

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