West Virginia Woman Charged With Embezzling $700+K

Georgiana Ciavarello, 38, of Nitro, West Virginia, has been charged yesterday with embezzling more than $700,000 from Quail Ridge Construction Co. where she had been employed as a bookkeeper. According to authorities, Ciavarello used the company accounting system to write checks to herself over the past two years. She has been charged with 11 felony counts of embezzlement.

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Update (8/21/12): Ciavarello, now 40, has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for tax evasion in connection with her embezzlement of what is believed to be $759,000 from Quail Ridge Construction.