Former Waukesha County Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft

The 45-year-old former Waukesha County employee who embezzled more than $300,000 from the county’s Aging and Disability Resource Center dining donation accounts was convicted Thursday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.

Kham Sisaleumsak pleaded guilty to nine counts of felony theft from a business setting in exchange of having four additional felonies dismissed.

Sisaleumsak will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. June 13.

The thefts occurred between 2004 and 2009 until June 18, 2009, when another employee opened the mail when Sisaleumsak was not working. That employee found a canceled check worth $850 made out to Sisaleumsak with forged signatures, according to the criminal complaint.

When confronted with the issue, Sisaleumsak admitted she had a gambling problem and she had written the $850 check and an additional $500 check to herself, according to the complaint.

Sisaleumsak was suspended from her employment as an account clerk with the county and the investigation showed more than $300,000 were taken from the county accounts during the past several years, according to the complaint.