Former Municipal Bookkeeper In New York Charged With Embezzling More Than $350K

Pegeen Mulligan-Moore, 40, of Valatie, New York, has been charged with embezzling more than $350,000 from the towns of Kinderhook and Greenport, New York, where she had been employed as a bookkeeper. Last September, Mulligan-Moore was charged with 18 felonies and two misdemeanors, which includes two counts each of felony second- and third-degree grand larceny and one count of fourth-degree grand larceny; two counts of computer trespass; two counts of first-degree tampering with public records; eight counts of first-degree falsifying business records; and second-degree attempted forgery—all felonies—and misdemeanor counts of obstructing governmental administration and criminal possession of stolen property. Prosecutors allege that Mulligan-Moore's schemes spanned a three year period from December 2006 until the end of December 2009. She is alleged to have embezzled more than $287,000 from Kinderhook and approximately $53,000 from Greenport by depositing checks intended for the municipalities into her own accounts and paying her credit card bills online with municipal funds.

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Update (3/1/11): Mulligan-Moore pleaded gulity today to all charges.

Update (6/21/11): Mulligan-Moore has been sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison and ordered to pay $530,000 in restitution, fines and costs.