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Former Sheriff’s Employee Gets 15 Years In Prison For $1.4 Million Theft
August 25, 2010
A former Escambia County Sheriff’s Office employee was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to 15 years in prison for stealing $1.43 million from the department.
Cathy Lister, 58, was also ordered to pay the money back, and she will remain on probation for 10 years once she is released from prison. Sentencing guidelines called for Lister to spend a minimum of 30 years behind bars, but Judge Paul Rasmussen ordered the lighter sentence because Lister cooperated with authorities and admitted the theft.
Lister, a former accountant who allegedly stole the funds over a long career with the Sheriff’s Office, was found guilty in July on one count of aggravated white collar crime and 11 counts of money laundering.
Lister was first charged in February with stealing $130,000 from the sheriff’s office, but further investigation determined that well over $1 million more was missing. The money was taken over a 10 year period from monies seized as part of investigations that was placed in the department’s Evidence Trust Fund. She testified in court that she paid bills and sometimes supported other family members with the money.
Lister was a 32-year employee of the department who retired from the finance division just six days before her arrest.
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6 Responses to “Former Sheriff’s Employee Gets 15 Years In Prison For $1.4 Million Theft”
Big Al, there is no parole in the State of Florida.
Let’s do the math. Sentenced to 15 years. She will probably do 5 or 6 years and then get paroled. That’s 250 to 300 thousand dollars per year. I work hard 5 or 6 days a week to make about 1/4 of that. And this is called “Justice” My My
Did you all do the math on that.
1.43 million in 10 years.
Thats 143.000 dollars a year plus her income.
Slightly over paid don’t you think!
I’m still stewing over this woman
What NERVE!
Yep as far as I’m concerned she should have gotten the 30 years.
The least she could do was cooperate when caught.
I wouldn’t have gave her props for that.
She stole from this whole town because of where she worked and whose
money it was.
We own the sheriffs office that is OUR tax dollars at work.
I hope this piece of garbage does stay in till she meets her maker.
One point four million.
GEEESH!
She got what she deserved. It’s said she brought shame on her family being a mother and wife.
So sad that chances are she will never return home, she will most likely live out the rest of her days in prison.
Her family deserves better.
*!*!* NOT WORTH IT*!*!*