Poplar woman pleads guilty to embezzling from school district
The former IT director for the Poplar School District pleaded guilty on Thursday to embezzling nearly $90,000 from the district.
Sheri Forbregd Gossage was indicted in U.S. District Court in Great Falls in February, charged with theft from a state and local government receiving federal funding and wire fraud. On Thursday, she pleaded guilty to the wire fraud charge after signing a plea deal with prosecutors less than a month earlier.
According to court documents, school district officials district officials became aware of the missing funds last August. A month earlier, the school informed Gossage that she needed to check into a rehabilitation center for drug abuse or she would lose her job.
After she began attending a rehab program, the school district's business manager reportedly discovered Gossage had made personal purchases on the district credit card from February 2014 until she was told to check into rehab. The business manager reported finding invoices for items that had "no apparent school use" ordered from Amazon and were never received by the school.
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