embezzlement

MOORHEAD – Police are investigating two former employees of The Big Lot car dealership here who allegedly admitted to being involved in a scheme to embezzle more than $300,000 from the company. According to a search warrant affidavit filed Thursday in Clay County District...

By Wendy Reuer / The forum WAHPETON, N.D. – The former manager of the motor vehicle branch office here that closed temporarily last summer faces felony charges after an investigation found more than $80,000 in unaccounted transactions. Catherine Muehler of Wahpeton faces one...

A former Thief River Falls bank officer accused of embezzling $396,000 has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, court records show. Vicki Lynn Torgerson, 48, faces up to 30 years in prison on the charge of embezzlement by a bank officer. Sentencing has not been...

By Emily Welker / The Forum FARGO – The longtime bookkeeper at a family-owned truck stop here is accused of skimming more than $190,000 from store ATMs over an eight-year period. Charles John Putney, 42, of West Fargo, appeared Friday in Cass County District Court on a charge...

By Tom Olsen / Duluth News Tribune The Carlton County transfer station kept financial records, but those records did not prove useful in catching the alleged embezzlement of significant amounts of cash by an employee, a county official acknowledged Monday. Heather Cunningham,...

MOORHEAD - A Moorhead-based Lutheran synod has recovered about $590,000 of the $714,000 that its former bookkeeper is suspected of embezzling, according to a letter to synod members from Bishop Lawrence Wohlrabe. The Northwestern Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church...

A 44-year-old woman from Hewitt faces a charge of felony theft for allegedly skimming money from the insurance agency where she worked. According to court documents, police questioned Teri Lea Randall in December 2011 about money missing from the agency where she worked.

A Kennedy, Minn., woman charged with stealing more than $44,000 from her friend and employer will serve 30 days in jail. Miranda Sue Gustafson, 34, made an initial restitution payment of $30,000 before being sentenced for theft Tuesday in state District Court in Hallock, Minn., according...

A former clerk at Orton's in Wadena was charged with theft in Wadena County District Court for allegedly skimming cash from the register. According to court documents, Patricia Katherine Sanders, 44, of Wadena, took $8,688.17 over the course of four months in late 2011.

MOORHEAD - The investigation into a bookkeeper's alleged embezzlement from a Moorhead-based church synod continues, and the latest search warrant affidavit shows the allegations are more serious than previously thought. Preliminary audits revealed that Robert Duane Larson transferred...

MINNEAPOLIS--Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, the former vice president and branch manager of the Star Bank in Bertha, Minnesota, admitted to stealing $80,000 from the bank. Kenneth Marlyn Ashbaugh, age 67, of Bertha, pleaded guilty to one count of bank theft. Ashbaugh,...

FARGO -What troubled U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson most wasn't that Silas Lee McHenry Jr. stole $1.2 million from the federal government. It was that the Grand Forks man did so over the course of nearly three decades, consciously choosing each month for 320 months to accept...