Waukesha Bookkeeper Charged With Embezzling $300K
Town of Waukesha man tells police he hired the suspect to do bookkeeping work for him and discovered she stole money for the past four years.
A 35-year-old Waukesha woman is accused of stealing nearly $230,000 from a Town of Waukesha man and running up $80,000 in charges on his credit cards while she worked as his bookkeeper, according to a criminal complaint. Kelly M. Dewane was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Wednesday with four counts of theft of more than $10,000 from a business and five counts of credit card fraud. If convicted, she faces up to 33 years in prison and $150,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: The man has two part-time groundskeepers and a part-time housekeeper and in 2008 he hired Dewane to be his bookkeeper and take care of his expenses. In December 2011, Dewane needed some time off due to health issues, so the man decided to take …
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