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| Subject: Charming: Former county treasurer Patricia Dawn O’Neill gets 3 years for embezzling $220K Thu Nov 26, 2015 3:30 am | |
| HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A former Jefferson County treasurer who acknowledged embezzling more than $220,000 has been sentenced to three years with the Montana Department of Corrections.
The Helena Independent Record reports (http://goo.gl/xBzAYZ ) Patricia Dawn O’Neill was sentenced Wednesday and ordered to pay about $250,000 in restitution. She pleaded guilty in July to felony theft.
The case came to light in March 2014 when O’Neill told her cousin - the county’s clerk and recorder - that she had attempted suicide because she had taken $200,000 in county funds in the six years since her divorce. An initial audit found at least $104,000 was missing, but a later report showed a $220,101 discrepancy.
Bank statements showed O’Neill wrote numerous checks to casinos.
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