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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Ind. Decisions - Madison school treasurer sentenced to 48 months following her guilty plea to embezzling more than $1,100,000
From a press release that begins:
Timothy M. Morrison, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced that ANN GEYMAN, 54, Madison, was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment today by U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John D. Tinder, sitting by designation in the U.S. District Court. The sentence followed her guilty plea to embezzling more than $1,100,000 from a school corporation receiving federal funds and other private entities. While imposing sentence, Judge Tinder described the loss and scope of GEYMAN�s series of embezzlements as "absolutely astonishing" and that it likely had a "devastating effect" on the school corporation. GEYMAN was also convicted of three counts of filing false federal income tax returns.This case was the result of a investigation by the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the Indiana State Police, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with the cooperation of the Switzerland County Prosecutor's Office.
GEYMAN served as the Treasurer of the Switzerland County School Corporation from January 20, 2003 to May 9, 2007. During this period, GEYMAN wrote 200 checks totaling $1,113,502.34 to various credit card companies to pay her personal credit card debts. None of these payments were approved by the Switzerland County School Corporation. GEYMAN altered bank statements and canceled checks to conceal her embezzlement, which was first discovered during an outside audit by the Indiana State Board of Accounts in May, 2007. It is a federal crime to embezzle funds from a governmental entity receiving more than $5,000 in federal funds in one year.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 12, 2008 03:48 PM
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