North Carolina Woman Accused Of Embezzling $300K From County

From WRAL.com:

Dozens of new charges were filed this week against a former Vance County employee who was arrested earlier this month on charges that she embezzled more than $300,000 in county funds.
Christa Harris Reavis, 41, was initially arrested Aug. 8 on 29 counts of forgery and a count of embezzlement. She was rearrested on Tuesday on 49 counts of forgery and counterfeiting and 78 counts of uttering a forged instrument.

Authorities allege that, starting in 2007, Reavis printed checks payable to vendors and then altered payee's names.

Reavis, who worked in the county finance office, also is charged with felony larceny stemming from the disappearance of a bag containing more than $60,000 worth of checks from the county tax office back in 2009.


From the Henderson Daily Dispatch on 10/28/2014:

The former county finance employee accused of stealing more than $300,000 from her employer is seeking to move her case out of Vance County.

Christa Reavis, 41, of 94 Oak Forest Drive, appeared in Vance County Superior Court on Tuesday with her attorney Nick Bagshawe.

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Massachusetts Woman To Be Resentenced For Stealing $210K From Credit Union

From the News Telegram on 2/24/14:

A 62-year-old city woman is scheduled to be resentenced next month for her role in the theft of more than $200,000 from the Grafton Street credit union where she worked.

Susan Carcieri and her husband, George Labadie, were found guilty in 2010 of staging an Aug. 27, 2002, robbery at the Wyman-Gordon Federal Credit Union on Grafton Street, where Ms. Carcieri worked as an assistant manager, and stealing $210,000.

A Worcester Superior Court jury convicted both the husband and wife of embezzlement from a bank by a bank employee. Mr. Labadie was found guilty as a joint venturer.

He was also convicted of attempted counterfeiting and possession of counterfeiting tools based on items that were recovered by police during a search of the couple's home at 521 Grafton St. two days after the reported robbery.

The state Appeals Court reversed both bank embezzlement convictions in 2012, finding that state courts lacked jurisdiction over the crime of embezzlement from a credit union.

Mr. Labadie was sentenced in 2010 to 10 to 12 years in state prison on the bank embezzlement charge, and to a concurrent prison term of 9 to 10 years for possessing counterfeiting tools. He was placed on probation for 10 years, to begin upon his release, on the attempted counterfeiting charge.

Ms. Carcieri was sentenced to 4 to 7 years' imprisonment, but the sentence was later stayed by Judge Peter W. Agnes Jr., pending appeal. Judge Agnes has since been appointed to the Appeals Court.
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Massachusetts Woman Sentenced For Embezzling $240K From Rhode Island Company

Sherrie Gagne, 41, of Seekonk, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for embezzling nearly $240,000 from Cranston, Rhode Island-based 4 Seasons Carpet Workshop Inc., where she had been employed as office manager. Prosecutors alleged that from September 2005 until January 2007, Gagne issued 91 checks to herself totaling $237,363 for her own personal benefit. She had pleaded no contest to one count of embezzlement over $100, one count of uttering and publishing a false instrument -- forging and counterfeiting checks -- and one count of obstruction of justice. As part of the sentence, Gagne must also make full restitution and will have 6 1/2 years of probation following her prison term.

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