CHICAGO (AP) – A judge has sentenced a former health club controller to four years in federal prison for embezzling $4.1 million from the facility. The Chicago Tribune reports that U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman sentenced 58-year-old Peter Craig Savely on Thursday. Savely pleaded guilty in October to one count of bank fraud. He acknowledged in a plea agreement that he wrote fraudulent payroll checks for employees at the East Bank Club and deposited the payouts into accounts he controlled over a seven-year period beginning in 2013. Savely’s attorney, Andrew Porter, asked that his client get 2.5 years because he’s unemployed and deep in debt.
