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#1382015 - 01/11/13 07:39 PM
Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
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newsman38
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Former chief, treasurer charged in embezzlement from Monterey fire department
The Office of the State Comptroller will expand a probe at the Monterey Volunteer Fire Department to include the Schuyler County Sheriff’s Office after finding that the fire department’s treasurer and her husband, a former chief who is a county jail administrator, treated more than $100,000 of fire department money as their own.
Kimberley States, the fire department’s treasurer, and her husband, Schuyler County Sheriff’s Sgt. Larry States, a past fire chief, were charged by state police Friday in the theft, according to a statement from the state comptroller’s office.
“For more than five years, these officials were able to embezzle (fire) department funds to help pay for their home mortgage, cell phones, groceries, concert tickets, family vacations and a personal vehicle,” State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said in a statement about the investigation.
Kimberley States was charged with second-degree grand larceny, a class C felony, and Larry States was charged with third-degree grand larceny, a class D felony, according to state police.
Both were arraigned in Montour Falls Village Court and released. They are scheduled to appear Feb. 12 in Orange Town Court.
The comptroller’s audit began in August 2012 and is expected to be complete in the coming months, the comptroller’s office said.
Schuyler County Sheriff Bill Yessman said by e-mail Friday that Sgt. Larry States has been suspended, though he said he could not comment on personnel issues.
Yessman said States did not have access to any of the sheriff’s office funds, and that his office will fully cooperate with the comptroller’s office.
Written by
Jason Whong
@SGJason
Copyright © 2013 http://www.stargazette.com. All rights reserved
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#1382129 - 01/12/13 01:34 PM
Re: Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
[Re: newsman38]
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kasey13
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dirty dirty larry.
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#1382130 - 01/12/13 01:37 PM
Re: Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
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kasey13
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more to come when the sheriff's dept gets auditted. ha ha
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#1395429 - 04/03/13 12:36 PM
Re: Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
[Re: kasey13]
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newsman38
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State: Monterey ‘negligent’ in oversight
MONTEREY—The New York State Comptroller’s Department released its report detailing how nearly $140,000 in funds were misappropriated from the Monterey Fire Company.
The audit covers Jan. 1, 2007, to March 14, 2013, right before it was released. It states that Larry States, fire chief, and then treasurer and chief’s wife, Kimberly States took nearly $140,000 from the department during the time audited. The report added the Monterey Fire Company should seek full reimbursements from the couple, as well as maintain better reviews of the finances.
The state said, “the (department) board and membership were negligent in the performance of their oversight of the company’s financial operations. All financial activities were performed solely by the treasurer, and the board did not implement compensating controls. This egregious lack of oversight created a weak control environment.”
The audit said Larry and Kimberly States were able to initiate non-company transactions without detection by making purchases with the company’s bank debit card and on the department’s credit with vendors. Additionally, Larry used the company’s accounts to make sales tax-exempt purchases for his contracting business—some of which he paid with the department’s debit card—and used fire funds to help purchase a personal vehicle.
Finally, the state added Kimberly deposited company revenues totaling $213 into her personal credit union account. These personal purchases, payments, cash withdrawals, and misappropriated revenues totaled $113,311. The state also identified another $26,386 in questionable payments and purchases that appeared to be personal in nature.
The report adds, Kimberly States gave the comptroller’s office a signed statement saying she had used the fire department’s money for personal use. On Jan. 11, 2013, the state police arrested both States and charged them with grand larceny.
The comptroller’s office added the couple reimbursed the fire department a combined total of $5,846 in late 2011 and early 2012. This leaves the total known misappropriated funds at an estimated $134,000.
The state recommended the department seek reimbursement for the $35,303 in improper payments to the couple’s family; the $9,530 in ATM withdrawals and related fees from the former treasurer; the deposit of $213 in company funds into personal credit union account; and the $68,265 in improper purchases by the States.
Copyright © 2013 FINGER LAKES MEDIA. All rights reserved.
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#1402725 - 05/25/13 02:20 AM
Re: Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
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kasey13
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so where is this blanant abuse of power and abuse of money at????????
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#1402728 - 05/25/13 02:32 AM
Re: Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
[Re: kasey13]
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kasey13
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sgt of Schuyler county sheriffs department steals all that money and no nothing in the news. corruption or what??
Edited by FL1 Mod 3 (05/26/13 10:43 AM)
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#1402748 - 05/25/13 10:29 AM
Re: Schuyler Co FD embezzlement case
[Re: kasey13]
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Hot Burrito
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If there was "nothing in the news," then what are those articles in the posts above yours about?
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