Embezzlement is essentially the personal use of public funds by someone or persons that the funds were entrusted to. It’s a form of employee theft that tends to center more on small businesses simply because there are not sufficient checks and balances in place to track funding. Anytime large amounts of money are present there […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. $38,000 was stolen from a school’s rodeo association Alesia Lappe, the former secretary of the Montana High School Rodeo Association, has been charged with embezzlement. Lappe started working for the association in March 2015 and was let go in December 2017. Court documents state Lappe wrote several […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Cafeteria worker accused of stealing over $25,000 from school in Arkansas. Rebecca Naomi Dorris, 53, was suspected of taking about $27,540 from the Camden Fairview Intermediate School over a five-year span. Dorris worked at the cash register in the Intermediate school’s cafeteria. Police say she was not turning in […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Almost a million dollars embezzled from a school in Arizona for a gambling habit. Thane Epefanio, 45, of Avondale, AZ, served as the Superintendent and Administrator of the Hopi Mission School, on the Hopi reservation in Kykotsmovi. Epefanio used his position and influence to embezzle school funds. He also […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. A 59-year-old grandmother, Bette Ray, who’d been quietly working for three decades as a school secretary and operations specialist, is a main suspect. She was the only person “responsible for collecting and depositing the money, and monitoring all parking operations.” Auditors reported that of $56,794 collected only $13,690 […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. The former school IT director pleads guilty to embezzling nearly $90,000. Sheri Forbregd Gossage from Poplar School District in Montana plead guilty to the wire fraud charge. In July 2017 the school informed Gossage that she needed to check into a rehabilitation center for drug abuse or she […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Bethany J. Kelley, 54, of Tidioute, PA, was hired as an administrative assistant in 2010. Since that time, police said she forged checks from the school’s general fund in the amount of $12,168.64; forged payroll checks to herself in the amount of $59,576.72. Kelley also stole $22,521.61 from the senior […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Treasurer arrested, accused of stealing nearly $20,000 from a football booster club in Arlington, TX. Shelly Marie Dwyer, 48, was arrested on charges of stealing from the Lamar booster club’s bank account. Board members learned that taxes for two quarters last year had not been paid by […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. $110,000 was stolen from Vigo County school in Terre Haute, IN, by former employees. Franklin Fennell, 49, was the Vigo County School Corp.’s director of transportation and facilities support at the time of the crimes. His indicted co-conspirator, Frank Shahadey, 62, is a former deputy sheriff and the […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Founders of Houston’s Varnett charter school pleaded guilty to a $2.6 million embezzlement of school-related funds. Marian Annette Cluff, 69, and Alsie Cluff Jr., 69, husband and wife, will face jail sentences and fines after a 19 count indictment. Per plea agreements, Marian agreed to a maximum […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Antoinette Garcia, 45, was charged for embezzling grant funds received by the Bernalillo Public Schools system. According to court documents Garcia admits she stole up to $95,000 to pay her own bills and expenses. Garcia was previously indicted on fraud and embezzlement charges for allegedly stealing from […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Phoenix charter school was sinking in debt, while its owner spent taxpayer dollars to support her lavish lifestyle. Like two Hawaiian vacations, a European vacation, personal gym membership, and sessions with “spiritual healers”. A court-appointed trustee flagged at least $37,157 of spending by Patricia McCarty that the trustee […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. In the past, students at Walnut Grove Elementary School in Southlake, TX, paid cash for supplies and various school activities. But some of the funds were never accounted for. Officials in the Carroll school district performed a five-year audit going back to 2011. They found several discrepancies in the […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Noel Rodriquez, 56, was sentenced after admitting to stealing from a federal program at the Academy of Dover. Over 3 years (2011-2014) Rodriguez stole nearly $150,000 from the school. He stole using three methods, according to court records: Rodriguez used the state-issued charter school procurement card to purchase […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. A former administrator at McKeel Academy and Kathleen Middle School has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from the schools. Circuit Judge Mark Carpanini also ordered Ginger Collins to pay $105,275 in restitution to the schools during the […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Norwood superintendent stole $60,000-plus by intercepting charter school checks. Rob Amodio pleaded guilty to the theft, according to a release from Ohio Auditor of State Dave Yost’s office. He intercepted checks and deposited to accounts he controlled by fraudulently endorsing them with the stamp of the school’s treasurer. […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. School Principal in Baltimore pleaded guilty to stealing school money and system technology. Leslie N. Lewis, 45, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft for taking more than $58,000 from the Baltimore City school system. According to prosecutors the school had a bank account that was set […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. West Rowan Middle School Booster band was practicing for months for a big competition in Williamsburg, Virginia. Just as the group was about to pay for the trip last month, it noticed that the money in its account was gone. Parent and former band treasurer Chantel Racquelle is […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Sarah Mae Diaz is the the only living defendant charged in the theft of the Topock Elementary School District money. While Diaz spent $75,000, her mother Kim Konnerth, the former business manager for the school district, was the architect of the embezzlement scheme that siphoned off more than $236,000 […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Former school secretary pleads guilty to theft from Tarrytown Union Free School District. Between October 2011 and March 2017, Carol Ressa stole over $10,000 from the Sleepy Hollow Middle School in New York. Ressa pled guilty to felony grand larceny as public corruption crime for stealing $10,000 from […]
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School payments, solution for accountants, school business manager. Julie Riviello, 41, from Clyde, NY, was charged with third-degree grand larceny and second-degree forgery. Riviello was employed by the Clyde-Savannah Central School District and also was a volunteer for the parent-teacher group. Riviello allegedly wrote checks from the parent-teacher group to herself and forged the signatures of other […]
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