Second defendant sentenced in Oklahoma embezzlement case
Former Maud, Oklahoma, employee Justin Horton recently pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement after stealing more than $50,000 in city funds between April 2007 and November 2009, according to the Shawnee News-Star. He received a five-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay more than $28,000 in restitution, in addition to a $250 fine and court costs.
Horton collaborated with his wife, the town treasurer, and his mother, who had been the city's court clerk for 22 years before resigning after the embezzlement was discovered in late 2009.
According to Oklahoma criminal defense attorneys Slane & Phillips, Horton's wife was accused of issuing approximately $11,000 worth of payroll advances to her husband. She also allegedly fraudulently appropriated more than $14,000 of city money, mostly from water funds. Her case will be heard in June.
Horton's mother, Natalie Meadows, admitted to embezzling approximately $5,000 of utility bill payments to pay for gambling expenses, then depositing money from traffic fines into the utility account and destroying duplicate receipts in an attempt to cover her tracks.
Meadows, whose case was heard in April, received a suspended sentence and was ordered to pay court costs, a $250 fine and nearly $10,000 in restitution.
Horton collaborated with his wife, the town treasurer, and his mother, who had been the city's court clerk for 22 years before resigning after the embezzlement was discovered in late 2009.
According to Oklahoma criminal defense attorneys Slane & Phillips, Horton's wife was accused of issuing approximately $11,000 worth of payroll advances to her husband. She also allegedly fraudulently appropriated more than $14,000 of city money, mostly from water funds. Her case will be heard in June.
Horton's mother, Natalie Meadows, admitted to embezzling approximately $5,000 of utility bill payments to pay for gambling expenses, then depositing money from traffic fines into the utility account and destroying duplicate receipts in an attempt to cover her tracks.
Meadows, whose case was heard in April, received a suspended sentence and was ordered to pay court costs, a $250 fine and nearly $10,000 in restitution.
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