Posted on 10/07/2014 2:23:21 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former Alcoa City Schools staffer to 40 months in prison in a $428,000 embezzlement scheme.
In a six-year scheme, Kathy Ann Winters siphoned money from the school district and two state educational groups where she served as treasurer.
Her thievery was discovered in a 2012 audit by the state Comptroller's Office. When confronted by federal authorities in April 2013, she confessed forging her supervisor's name on various documents, crafting faux invoices and drafting checks to squirrel away money for her personal use, including paying her bills and paying her way into a partnership with an exercise facility.
Court records state she stole from the Tennessee Attendance Supervisors Steering Committee, the Alcoa City School District and the East Tennessee Attendance Supervisors Association from July 2007 to May 2013. In addition to serving as treasurer for the two state funds, she worked as federal projects administrative assistant for the school system. She earned more than $50,000 in annual salary in that post.
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How can they teach math if they can’t even keep track of their own finances?
I’m sorry, but there are too many thieves in this country. We are going to have to start hanging some of them.
Damn, how did the administration miss a up and coming Progressive dynamo like her?
A bank robber who gets maybe 5k gets 10 years. She steals 428k and gets 3-1/2 years?
I don't get it.
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The bank robber threatened with a gun. She simply stole it.
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