Former Bossier Parish Community College comptroller sentenced to five years for fraud
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) A former community college comptroller in Louisiana has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $270,000 after pleading guilty in what prosecutors say was years of fraud.
Carol Bates, former comptroller at Bossier Parish Community College was sentenced Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. in Shreveport, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook said in a news release.
“Abuse of high trust is among the worst things a public employee can do,” Louisiana Inspector General Stephen Street said in the news release. “Ms. Bates engaged in a deliberate and complex scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from an institution of higher learning, wit
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