A True Story Round-up for July 20, 2010:

Story #1 takes place in Colorado. A bookkeeper convicted of stealing $230,000 from her former employer faces new charges of harassment and violating a protection order.  Evidently the money spent on lingerie didn’t help with the stalking case.

An Oregon woman was sentenced to four years and four months in prison for embezzling nearly $500,000 from the company where she worked as a bookkeeper.  According to her lawyer, she has a bad gambling problem.  Really?

In California a bookkeeper forged hundreds of company checks for the benefit of herself and her family. She hid the theft by falsifying data in an electronic ledger she maintained for the company and didn’t pay income tax on her illegal income.  What a shocker!

Back to Colorado for story #4 where a former employee was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $700,000 from homeowners associations in metro Denver.

Our last story takes place on the East coast where a woman used bookkeeping computer software to write herself a checks, but made them appear as though they were written to vendors.  She was convicted in 2007, but has been on the run since.  The law finally caught-up with her, and now she’s really in trouble!

If you have stories to share, send them to truestories@auditmybooks.com.  If we publish them, we’ll give you full credit and a link back to your site.

-CP Morey