Former Yonkers Business Improvement District Employee Pleads Guilty to Grand Larceny
WHITE PLAINS, NY -- Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Maria Maquilon (DOB 10/02/49) of 318 North Terrace Avenue, Yonkers, New York, pleaded guilty today to one count of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a class “C” Felony.
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Over a twenty month period from September 1, 2005 to May 9, 2007, the defendant, who was employed as a secretary/administrative assistant by the Yonkers South Broadway District Management Association Inc., stole approximately $71,098.09 from the Association by hand writing and/or cutting and cashing unauthorized checks.
Additionally, to cover up the thefts, the defendant intentionally altered and/or falsified business records, including, but not limited to, Quick Book Account entries, Check Requests, purported payees and check stubs.
Yonkers Tribune was first to divulge the circumstances behind this situation too long hidden from view by its Executive Director Jose Velez and its Board of Directors.
Maquilon’s bail was continued at $1,000.
She faces a minimum of five to a maximum of fifteen years in state prison.
She will be sentenced on October 8, 2008.
Assistant District Attorney Berit Hayes Husbey, of the Public Integrity Bureau, prosecuted the case.
what about the library criminals?
Posted by: | June 27, 2008 at 05:28 AM
what library criminals?
Posted by: | June 27, 2008 at 02:54 PM