Embezzlement

An employee has been accused of embezzling more than $12,000 from the nonprofit organization that owns Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.     The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://is.gd/IU3G0D) that 40-year-old Shelly Lee Comried was issued a court...

A Kodiak woman has been sentenced to four months in prison for her role in an embezzlement scheme involving a seafood company. The U.S. attorney's office says Jamie Fathke was sentenced Wednesday on two counts of wire fraud. Fathke is one of five...

An attorney for a former Chugiak High School clerk told an Anchorage judge on Monday that his client has already begun trying to make amends. As part of a plea deal, Brenda Burge of Wasilla will pay the school back $60,000. Her attorney says Burge has so...

Five people have been indicted on wire fraud charges for allegedly taking part in a scheme to embezzle nearly $500,000 from the Trident Seafoods plant in Kodiak.     KMXT reports (http://is.gd/orIXWJ) the missing funds were discovered shortly after 32-...

A former Anchorage School District employee fired for embezzlement is facing additional charges related to fraud at a second school where she worked, according to Anchorage police. Wasilla resident Gayle White, 44, was summoned to court to answer charges...

An Alaska Air National Guardsman is facing felony charges for allegedly embezzling more than $220,000 in funds from the Guard’s family programs over a four-year period. According to charging documents, 39-year-old Jason Johnson has been charged...

A woman accused of embezzling nearly $75,000 from the Anchorage School District since 2007 while working at Chugiak High School made her first court appearance Friday at the Palmer courthouse. Alaska State Troopers arrested Brenda Burge, 54, Thursday...

A former employee of the Tanacross post office has received probation for embezzling money. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/sD8t85) says 38-year-old Donna Tremblay embezzled more than $1,000 last year. Tremblay pleaded guilty to second-...

A former bank official in Juneau will repay $300,000 and serve nearly three years in a federal prison for embezzlement. Antonietta Robinson of the Philippines was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. Federal prosecutors say the 44-...

MEXICO CITY — Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited Friday from his home country to the United States, where he faces long-standing charges that he used U.S. banks to launder millions of dollars in public funds that he...

The retired South Whitehall Township police officer accused, along with his wife, of stealing more than $850,000 from the township to support their gambling habit surrendered on Wednesday afternoon. William J. Tonkin IV, who worked as a police officer...

SOUTH BEND — Norm DeBoever describes his six-person go-kart company as a family. The small company in a niche market sells equipment to attractions and facilities that race go-karts. It brought in $3 million a year in its heyday. But partially...