A true story round-up for June 29, 2010:

#1 comes to us from Montana where a Florence woman who embezzled $180,000 from a Missoula architecture firm was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in the Montana State Prison, with eight years of the term suspended.  What’s unique about this case is that she is required to pay back the $180,000 plus an additional $13,000 that was spent on the forensic investigation.

Our second story is an uncommon case where the thief was a bookkeeper at an accounting firm.  She wrote checks to herself with funds from three clients of the firm totaling over $107,000 and used that money for personal expenses. And now for that all too common refrain, “at one time, the defendant was a trusted employee.”

#3 takes place in Indiana where a woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for falsifying checks and stealing more than $400,000 from a Wolcott grain company where she worked as a bookkeeper.

Our fourth story involves a former employee of a Ridgefield business consulting firm who appeared in court Thursday, charged with embezzling funds from the company.  She had been stealing money since the “mid-eighties”, and like so many cases the owner was tipped off by someone outside the firm.  In this case, it was AMEX.

Our last story for the round-up is the big money event.  A bookkeeper for a Lexington law firm was sentenced to 51 months in prison on Friday for stealing nearly $2 million from the company… wow!

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