Former LaPorte County auditor embezzlement nets 7-year term
Mar 2, 2016
NWI Times
HAMMOND — A former chief deputy auditor for LaPorte County was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for embezzling $150,000 in government money and defrauding her elderly father-in-law out of more than $600,000 so she could gamble.
Mary Ray, 68, of LaPorte, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Jon Deguilio to forfeit $137,249 and pay $801,315 in restitution, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Ray was convicted Sept. 17 of two counts of theft of government money, two counts of making false statements on a tax return and seven counts of mail fraud.
Ray embezzled more than $150,000 from county coffers from September 2011 to December 2012, while she worked as LaPorte County's chief deputy auditor, prosecutors said. She made false statements on her federal tax return by not reporting the embezzled funds.
Ray also defrauded her father-in-law, an 86-year-old disabled veteran, out of more than $600,000 that he entrusted her to oversee, prosecutors said.
Evidence presented at trial showed Ray used the money to gamble at casinos, prosecutors said.
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