Former Mountaineer bookkeeper charged with embezzlement
Federal prosecutors announced Monday the indictment of 48-year-old Anita Ambler, the former bookkeeper at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort. Ambler is accused of embezzling more than $1.2 million in funds from the horsemen's purse account between 2005 and 2010, U.S Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld tells the Associated Press:
"The indictment says she used an Internet-based accounting system from a company called Incompass to handle the horsemen's account. The data went through a server in Lexington, Ky., giving prosecutors grounds to charge her with interstate wire fraud."
"The indictment outlines 42 cases of Ambler removing cash from the horsemen's account "for her own benefit and use." She forged checks, made false deposits, and fraudulently issued checks in the names of family members and a business she owned called "Forgotten Farms," Ihlenfeld said."
"The checks were written in amounts ranging from as little as $1,800 to more than $19,000."
