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July 16, 2010

Tahlequah woman sentenced to two years probation

A Tahlequah woman was sentenced to two years probation with six months of home confinement for embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization, according to a media release from Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

Gloria Ann Case, 48, was also ordered to pay $10,213.21 in restitution to the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Charges arose from an investigation by the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service. Case was indicted in February and pleaded guilty in April.

The Indictment alleged that beginning about March 2005 and continuing until about May 2008, Case, an employee of the Cherokee Nation, accepted cash payments on tribal loans from tribal members and then created false receipts showing the money had been paid. On other occasions, Case would transfer funds between accounts in order to cover what she had taken.

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