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A Middlesex County man who previously admitted to embezzling $2.37 million from the New York-based company that employed him as controller was sentenced Tuesday to two years and three months in prison, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Gerard Beauzile, 63, of South Plainfield, pleaded guilty in 2022 to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said in a release. Beauzile issued about 140 company checks to himself and deposited those checks into his bank accounts between 2014 and 2020, according to court documents. He covered the thefts by entering the ch…