State v. Williams (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0424, 12 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Michael Morgan, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where the uncontradicted evidence showed that the money defendant embezzled was raised by the PTA ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A former Raleigh assistant city manager has been charged with embezzling from a business incubator formerly funded by the city. Lawrence Edward Wray, 70, was indicted Tuesday on a charge of obtaining property by false pretense, according ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Former Cherryville Police Chief Woody Burgess has been placed on probation on embezzlement charges stemming from a scheme that involved nearly a half-dozen city employees. Multiple media outlets reported that U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad Jr. on ...

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WAKE FOREST (AP) — A North Carolina woman has been arrested and charged with taking more than $11,000 from the former school where she worked. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that 51-year-old Sue Horton Romano of Wake Forest ...

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ASHEVILLE (AP) — A former manager at the Asheville police evidence room has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for taking government property. William Smith pleaded guilty to the embezzling charge in March 2013. Smith was sentenced Tuesday by ...

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WILMINGTON (AP) — A former administrator at a plastic surgery practice in Wilmington has been charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the business. New Hanover County sheriff’s deputies say 44-year-old Guy Robert Williams has been arrested and ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina revenue officials say a bookkeeper at a Concord-based business has been arrested and accused of keeping more than $400,000 in state and county taxes for the company. Barbara Butler, 61, of Harrisburg, also is accused ...

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LENOIR (AP) — A former city of Lenoir employee has been charged with embezzling more than $100,000. Forty-eight-year-old Sherry Lynn Phillips Nichols of Lenoir has been charged with one felony count of larceny by an employee. Lenoir police say Nichols ...

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State v. Parker (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0351, 14 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Union County Superior Court (Christopher Bragg, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The state’s evidence of atypical food and item purchases and numerous forged signatures was sufficient for ...

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A former American Cancer Society worker will spend the holidays in jail after pleading guilty in Pender County to embezzling nearly $70,000 from the society.

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