Ex-secretary of tiny Jefferson Co. borough charged with stealing $300k
The former secretary of a tiny Jefferson County borough fleeced the community of some $300,000, according to a federal grand jury.
Tammy Laird appeared in U.S. District Court on Friday to face more than two dozen wire fraud counts in ripping off Corsica, Pa., a village east of Clarion with a population of about 357.
Ms. Laird was secretary and treasurer there and handled all the bills, earning $12.50 an hour.
Starting in 2009 and lasting until last year, the grand jury said she issued checks from the borough's accounts at S&T Bank and the Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust to herself, her husband and her father in the total amount of $256,000.
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