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Auditor General says Town of Parker office specialist allegedly embezzled roughly $173,000; indictment filed
Summary
Auditor General staff described a financial investigation into the Town of Parker that found alleged unauthorized checks, diverted cash receipts and personal use of town credit cards; the former employee is indicted on nine felony counts and the office issued recommendations to improve controls.
The director of financial investigations for the Arizona Auditor General told the Joint Legislative Audit Committee that a Town of Parker employee has been indicted on nine felony counts after an audit found what the office called apparent embezzlement of town funds.
Gretchen Augustine, director of the Auditor General’s Division of Financial Investigations, told the committee that her team’s investigation found that “from February 21 to October 2021, the former office specialist may have embezzled over a $173,000 of town monies” by issuing unauthorized checks to herself and others, keeping cash receipts that should have been deposited, and making personal purchases on town credit cards. Augustine said the Auditor General’s office submitted a confidential report to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office; the Attorney General later presented evidence to a grand jury and an indictment was returned.
The office’s June public report, Augustine said,…
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