Wilmington Plastic Surgery employees face former manager going to prison

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A former manager of Wilmington Plastic Surgery is going to prison for embezzling more than $500,000 dollars.

Former Practice Manager Guy Williams was arrested in May of 2014 charged with embezzling and forgery. Williams plead guilty to his charges earlier this month.

Williams was accused of forging plastic surgeon Charles Kays’s name on a promissory note to First Citizens Bank for $200,000, according to arrest warrants. The prosecutor told the judge Williams used unauthorized checks, company credit cards and overpaid his salary and bonuses.

One of the doctors at the practice, Jeff Church, said Williams was supposed to be getting paid about $83,000 as the practice manager, but he said Williams was paying himself about $152,000.

In court, Church along with other employees got a chance to speak to Williams directly about what he did to them. Church said his emotional confrontation was inspired by controlled rage.

“The betrayal,” Church said. “The 22 months of pain and suffering we’ve gone through. We’re doctors. We’re supposed to take care of people. I’ve spent hours and hours and hours waiting for this moment. Justice is finally served.”

Defense attorney Ed West said Williams accepts full responsibility for his charges. He also told the courtroom full of employees that, “There are not words to adequately apologize for what he did to them.”

Williams was sentenced to an active sentence of 35 to 51 months in prison and a suspended sentence of 45-108 months 60 months of probation and $69,000 dollars in restitution, a $1,000 fine and court fees.