Friday, January 10, 2014

Former Nursing Home Bookkeeper In Wisconsin Accused Of Embezzling More Than $850K In "Complex" Scheme

From the Wisconsin State Journal on 1/9/14:

The Belleville woman accused of stealing more than $850,000 from a New Glarus nursing home used a scheme so sophisticated that annual audits didn’t catch it, and a forensic accountant who was hired to find it almost missed it, the nursing home’s director said.

Joyce Ziehli, 55, was charged Tuesday with six felony counts of theft in a business setting over $10,000 by the Green County district attorney. According to a criminal complaint, she stole the money from New Glarus Home Inc. over a 10-year period. Police said she used the money to support a music magazine she published with her husband.

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