Home St. Louis Press Releases 2009 Kirksville Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Info
This is archived material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) website. It may contain outdated information and links may no longer function.

Kirksville Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

U.S. Attorney’s Office July 30, 2009
  • Eastern District of Missouri

ST. LOUIS, MO—Susan Warren pled guilty to bank fraud charges in connection with her embezzlement of $140,000 from two employers, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap and Knox County Prosecuting Attorney David Brown announced today.

Between June 2007 and December 2008, Susan K. Warren worked for Leehoff Auto Recycling and Pape Trucking, both of which operated out of an office in Knox City, Missouri. Leehoff and Pape each maintained separate business bank accounts at Town & Country Bank Midwest, in Labelle, Missouri. Warren maintained a personal bank account at Alliant Bank in Kirksville, Missouri. In August 2007 Warren began writing unauthorized checks from both the Leehoff and Pape accounts at Town & Country. Warren would write some of these fraudulent checks payable to herself and others to pay for personal expenses, such as utility bills and personal debt. Warren did not have authority to write checks from these accounts to herself or to pay her personal expenses. Warren forged the signature of another employee, on some of the fraudulent checks. Warren would deposit the fraudulent checks she wrote to herself into her bank account at Alliant Bank. Warren’s fraudulent conduct has caused combined losses to Leehoff and Pape of more than $140,000, which Warren agrees to repay in restitution.

"By stealing more than $140,000 from her work, Susan Warren didn't just hurt her employer," said Maxwell D. Marker, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in St. Louis."Small businesses, especially in rural areas, are what drive the local economy."

SUSAN WARREN, Kirksville, Missouri, pled guilty to one felony count of bank fraud this morning before United States District Judge Charles A. Shaw. Sentencing has been set for October 14, 2009.

Bank fraud carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and/or fines up to $1,000,000.

Reap and Brown commended the work performed on the case by the Kirksville Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Adair County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and Assistant United States Attorney Reginald Harris, who is handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

This content has been reproduced from its original source.