Former High School Bookkeeper Sentenced for Theft
| filed under: Breaking News, Field Cases, White-Collar CrimeDeborah Clough, former bookkeeper for Proctor High School, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court by Chief Judge Christina Reiss to 14 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release on charges of theft from an organization receiving federal funding and filing false tax returns.
Former High School Bookkeeper Sentenced for Theft
Deborah Clough, former bookkeeper for Proctor High School, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Vermont to 14 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release on charges of theft from an organization receiving federal funding and filing false tax returns.
Clough repeatedly prepared unauthorized checks to herself from the Proctor High School Student Activities Account and fabricated supporting documents to justify the issuance of the checks. Clough obtained a total of approximately $106,000 from her fraud against the school. Because she failed to declare the stolen funds as income, she failed to pay over $19,000 in taxes during the years of the fraud.
