Secretary In Louisiana Judiciary System Charged With Embezzling More Than $1 Million

Brenda C. Bickford, 60, of Hammond, Louisiana, has been charged with embezzling more than $1 million from the Tangipahoa Parish's District Attorney's Office of the 21st Judicial Circuit where she has served as a secretary for the past 16 years. According to prosecutors, Bickford created a fictitious company called B&B Court Reporting Services and collected on fraudulent invoices she created for services never rendered. She has been charged with forgery, filing and maintaining false public records, malfeasance and felony theft. The total amount believed to have been stolen thus far is $1,012,700 in a scheme that spanned at least "several" years.

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Former Louisiana Parish Utility Employee Charged With Embezzling More Than $100K

Barbara Topham Vicknair, 60, of Morgan City, Louisiana, has been arrested and charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from the Lower St. Martin Parish Water and Sewer District where she had been employed as office manager. Vicknair was charged with 383 counts of monetary instrument abuse, as well as charges of malfeasance and injuring public records. Vicknair was a 30 year employee of the utility.

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