County Fire Official In Pennsylvania Sentenced For Embezzling More Than $250K

From CBS Philly on 11/6/2014:

The former treasurer of a Montgomery County fire company is headed to prison for stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars over a period of several years.

Sixty-three-year-old Ronald Nolan apologized to the nearly dozen members of the Upper Gwynedd Fire Company who turned out for his sentencing. The Skippack, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to eleven-and-a-half to 23 months in the county jail followed by ten years probation. Prosecutors say he embezzled the money using fire company credit cards and cash advances. Prosecutor Laura Adshead says the thefts impacted the department.

“For years, they were told they didn’t have enough money to get new gear, new safety equipment,” she says, “so that really put them at risk.”

Adshead says the theft took not only a financial toll on the company but an emotional one.
“This was someone who had been a member for years,” she says, “someone they trusted and that really impacted the camaraderie of the fire department.”

Adshead says Nolan went on lavish vacations and paid for his daughter’s wedding with some of the money that was supposed to support the community.

He was also ordered to make restitution which he has started doing.

Utah Woman Charged With Embezzling $500K

From the Ogden Standard-Examiner on 1/22/14:

A woman is accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from her former employer.

Teri Ann Jarvis was a secretary at Positive Power, an electrical contractor in Ogden. Lt. Mark Lowther of the Weber County Sheriff's Office said Jarvis was charged with allegedly stealing money from the company through credit cards and checks over a course of five years.

An exact amount is currently unknown, but Lowther said Jarvis had embezzled about $500,000 while she was employed there.

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Ohio Man Charged With Embezzling Nearly $1.7 Million

Mark Cherubini, 44, of rural Knox County, Ohio, has been charged with embezzling nearly $1.7 million from three separate businesses owned by his high school friends for which he had served as financial manager, including Law General Contracting, RMR Holdings and Redskin Transport. According to authorities, over a period of nearly 8 years, from January 2003 until September 2010, Cherubini falsified financial ledgers and wrote fraudulent checks to a fourth company he had worked for but had been sold to foreign owners. Cherubini allegedly kept one of the old company's accounts open and used the proceeds for his own benefit. Prosecutors also allege that Cherubini owns a quarter horse farm which he purchased with the ill-gotten gains from his alleged misappropriations. Cherubini has been indicted on nine felony charges, including three counts of aggravated theft, three counts of money laundering, two counts of misuse of a credit card and one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.

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Massachusetts Woman Found Guilty Of Embezzling $752K

Cynthia Goldberg, aka Cynthia Kussy, aka Cynthia McDonnell, 47, of Westborough, Massachusetts, was found guilty Friday in a bench trial of embezzling $752,245 from FSL Associates, an environmental engineering firm located in Brighton, where she had been employed as a bookkeeper. Goldberg was indicted on 20 felony counts including 10 counts of larceny, five counts of making false entries into corporate books, and five counts of misuse of a credit card. According to authorities, Goldberg's thefts spanned approximately 5 years from 2002 until she was fired in 2007. Goldberg obtained three credit cards in the company name and its CEO and made numerous fraudulent purchases of goods from such retail stores and other personal expenses, such as PETCO, Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic, Wolfer's Lighting, the Ritz Carlton hotel and several area tanning salons and limousine companies.

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Watch a video on the story here.

Read the Suffolk County D.A.'s office announcement of her indictment here.

Ohio Woman Pleads Guilty To $290K Embezzlement Scheme

Angela Jackson, aka Angela Bailey, of West Carrollton, Ohio, pleaded guilty to charges she embezzled some $290,000 from the Indian Creek Condominium Association where she had been employed as the property manager. She was originally charged last March with aggravated theft, ten counts of forgery and two counts of misuse of a credit card. Jackson reportedly worked as property manager for about two years and was caught in the scheme last August by officers of the company. Jackson reportedly confessed to the thefts. Authorities suggested that the embezzlement may have been tied into an "addiction" problem Jackson reportedly had.

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