Former Sun Prairie restaurant GM pleads no contest to theft

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The former general manager of the Market Street Diner in Sun Prairie pleaded no contest to stealing about $181,000 in cash and goods from the restaurant, which is part of the Food Fight chain.

In a Wisconsin State Journalupdate to a story that broke in May, Debra L. Riphahn-Vera used a company credit card to make purchases for the restaurant between 2012 and 2015 that were instead sent to her home and/or used at her other business, Wisconsin Candle Co.

A restitution amount is still being worked out, and sentencing is set for March 9.

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