Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: Embezzelement

Your honesty and remorse will be the primary determining forces to your demise. Embezzlement is amongst the most serious non-violent crimes in the Courts as the focus is a breach of trust and fiduciary duties. As such, sentencing is more severe than if the same amount was stolen from a third party with whom you had no previous employment/fiduciary relationship. PLEASE stop talking about this case with others until you have obtained proper legal assistance. I believe, based on your statement of facts, that you have already made several damaging admissions. The more admissions you make, the more difficult the task for your future attorney.

Re: Embezzelement

Under applicable criminal law, each of the accused is what the law calls "jointly and severally liable" for the entire amount which was feloniously taken and, consequently, each can be prosecuted for the unlawful taking of the full amount in question to the full extent allowed by law.

The accord and satisfaction is a civil remedy which can be used to settle petty larceny(misdemeanor) cases in lieu of criminal sanctions for the defendant but as far as I am aware this remedy is not available in serious felony cases such as grand larceny or embezzlement.