State v. Mark

Albert Mark appeals from a restitution order entered after his 1977 jury conviction for grand larceny. We remand for the purpose of reducing the amount of required restitution from $230,000 to $93,000.

Mark, a West Seattle pharmacist, was convicted of grand larceny for submitting reimbursement claims to the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) for medicines neither dispensed nor prescribed. He received a deferred sentence conditioned in part on payment of restitution to DSHS in an amount to be determined in a post-trial hearing. After various appeals, a restitution hearing was held…