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Monday, October 22, 2018
Former BLM employee sentenced in Tucson federal court for embezzlement scheme
An embezzlement scheme by a former Bureau of Land Management employee drained the agency’s budget to the point that rangers could not buy ammunition or body armor.
Pamela Spencer, 33, pleaded guilty to stealing $90,000 of government property through a series of fraudulent purchases she made using a government-issued credit card. She was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Tucson to six months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $83,169.
As mortgage payments and credit card bills piled up, she “acted out of desperation,” Spencer told Judge James A. Soto at the sentencing hearing on Thursday...MORE
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