Ex-payroll clerk indicted for official misconduct September 22, 2009
Posted by tsclaw2209 in News.Tags: official misconduct
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Tanis Colelli, Highlands, New Jersey was a payroll clerk for the Atlantic Highlands borough Board of Education. She is accused of creating an additional payroll account for herself and collecting multiple paychecks from it totaling about $11,500.
Colelli resigned from her job some time ago after a random audit uncovered the additional payroll account. The school district notified local police of the inconsistencies in the account after a review of the information and interview of school personnel. As a result, she was charged with second degree official misconduct; third-degree theft by deception, forgery and uttering a forged instrument; and fourth degree falsifying records.
Like all of these cases, I wonder if she has been able to get a good attorney. I assume she hasn’t. Some defense attorneys complain about the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office but I always work well with them. If she had a good attorney, this case could have probably been worked out already. I know because I have done it many times.
However, (I’ll assume guilt for a second) when people steal money, there is usually a good reason they risk everything. As a result, they don’t keep money around for an attorney and thus, the case rarely turns out well. Unless a good attorney can get in there and turn this around, she’ll be in prison.
Story is here.
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