Woman accused of embezzling more than $300,000

Posted 9/3/20

RIVERTON (WNE) — A Riverton woman has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 in four years’ time.

Laura Burleson — also known as Laura Logan or Laura Veach — could …

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Woman accused of embezzling more than $300,000

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RIVERTON (WNE) — A Riverton woman has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 in four years’ time.

Laura Burleson — also known as Laura Logan or Laura Veach — could face up to 40 years in prison and $40,000 in fines for one of the largest aggregate thefts in Fremont County memory: separate theft charges totaling $363,769 together.

The embezzlements with which the 43-year-old is charged are reported to have started in November of 2014, with the last one dating to February 2018.

In May 2020, M&M Well Service owner John Majdic reached out to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office regarding several thousand dollars of money missing from his business. Majdic said he first became aware of a problem when employees started complaining their W-2s were inaccurate.

“Specifically,” sheriff’s office detective Eric Granlund wrote in court documents, “the forms were reflecting income the employees had not received.”

An accountant helped Majdic delve a little deeper and the pair learned a “significant amount of cash monies earmarked for ‘subsistence pay’ — or crew per diem pay — were withdrawn and missing from Jan. 1, 2017 and April 30, 2018,” Granlund wrote.

A forensic accounting report unearthed $71,000 withdrawn from “subsistence pay” accounts that was signed for by Burleson, but not distributed to employees.

Burleson appeared in court Aug. 26, and was assigned a $75,000 cash-only bond.

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