Wednesday, August 12, 2009

California Insurance Manager Charged In $500K Embezzlement Scheme

Michele Renee Ganczarski, 45, of Santa Clara, California, has been charged with embezzling $561,927 from MacCorkle Insurance Service in San Mateo, California, where she had been employed as an accounting manager. According to prosecutors, Ganczarski wrote 87 company checks to herself and deposited them into her personal checking account over a nearly two year period between October 4, 2007 and June 27, 2009. She was responsible for issuing checks from the company trust account to pay for clients’ insurance premiums. Specifically, Ganczarski was charged with 20 counts of embezzlement greater than $400, 19 counts of obtaining personal identification information for an unlawful purpose and 19 counts of forgery.

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