An Arizona bookkeeper has been indicted for allegedly embezzling over $5.3 meg from II local businesses for which she worked, and from a homeowner’s connection in Mexico. She spent most of the ill-gotten money at Tucson-area casinos, local authorities late revealed.
Helen Marie Dahlstrom of Tucson, Ariz. was supercharged with fraudulent schemes and artifices, theft, data processor tampering, forgery, and money laundering, according to a financial statement released tardily finally week past Arizona Attorney General St. Mark Brnovich.
She stole the money over a seven-year span, starting inward 2013, for the most part by penning checks made out to cash, Brnovich said in a statement.
Dahlstrom allegedly stole most of the money from employer accounts on which she had access. She allegedly used software program and computers for division of the scheme. Authorities also identified the impacted employers as Lauderbach Builders Supply and L&L Manufactured Components. Both are construction-related companies inwards Tucson. She was their bookkeeper.
Dahlstrom also was a financial officer for a Rocky Point, Mexico-based homeowner’s association. The connexion is called Cholla Bay HOA. It is known in Spanish people as Asociacion De Regularizacion De Vecinos De La Cholla.
Seven Years of Alleged Crimes
She stole money from the Cholla Bay HOA, Brnovich said, and then allegedly forged the Cholla Bay HOA’s financial statements.
The indictment was handed land by an AZ grand jury on Jan. 24. The attorney full general proclaimed the nine-page indictment endure week. If convicted, Dahlstrom could human face many years in prison. It is unclear which attorney testament correspond her in commonwealth court.
The pillowcase was investigated by the genus Arizona Attorney General’s Special Investigations Section. The criminal prosecution testament live handled past Julia Kaiserman and Nicholas Vachel Lindsay St. John. Both are assistant attorneys full general in the state.
Arizona officials did non particularize which casinos she gambled inwards with the money. There are multiple gaming venues inwards the region.
Among those in the Tucson expanse are Casino Del Sol, Desert Diamond Casino Tucson, Casino of the Sun, Desert Diamond Casino Sahuarita, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, and Rillito Park Race Track.
Minnesota Casino Embezzlement
Other allegations of embezzlement at casinos hold been leveled crossways the nation. For instance, o'er a twelvemonth ago a former MN tribal casino supervisor pleaded shamefaced to embezzling $315,000 from her employer during a nearly seven-year span.
Jennifer Lynn Boutto, 32, of Orr, Minn., admitted her guilt feelings in US District Court. Boutto said spell workings at Fortune Bay Resort Casino, she executed nearly 3,000 fraudulent transactions for her financial gain, authorities said. She was sentenced to viii months in prison.
The gambling casino is owned and operated past the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa.