A Vermont woman will spend over a year in prison after she embezzled more than $230,000 from the Dartmouth College student newspaper, the Journal-Opinion reports.

Yesterday, federal prosecutors announced that Nicole Chambers, 41, of Springfield, was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for stealing $223,372.51 from The Dartmouth. She was also ordered to pay restitution.

Chambers was the paper’s primary office manager from 2012 until her resignation in December 2021, according to the college newspaper.

The Dartmouth: “After students at the newspaper discovered and reported missing funds to the Hanover Police Department, the FBI launched an investigation — finding that Chambers had used The Dartmouth’s PayPal and Venmo accounts to make unauthorized transfers to her personal accounts.” 

In a news release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Hampshire included some more details:

“She misused the funds on personal expenses, including plane tickets, hotels, and lodging across the United States and Caribbean as well as on items such as a 12-inch green tea memory foam mattress and bedframe. She also used The D’s funds to pay $1,900 in fees associated with her husband’s court case in Newport (Rhode Island) County Superior Court.”

Dartmouth professors’ killer seeks new sentence

In other Vermont-Dartmouth crime news, one of the killers of two Dartmouth College professors killed in 2001 says the 2012 life sentence without parole violates his constitutional rights, the Journal-Opinion reports.

The Union Leader of New Hampshire reports: “A man serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing two Dartmouth College professors when he was a teenager continues to seek a resentencing hearing after years of claiming his sentence violates his constitutional rights.”

There will be a hearing next week on Robert Tulloch’s request for a new sentence.

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that life sentences without parole for juvenile murderers were unconstitutional. Tulloch was 17 at the time Half and Susanne Zantop were killed in 2001. 

Tulloch’s accomplice, James Parker, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. He was paroled from jail in June. Both Tulloch and Parker lived in Chelsea at the time of the murder.