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Ex-Walnut Grove city clerk gets prison time for embezzling city funds
Prosecutors say former Walnut Grove city clerk Cari Gillmore was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Tuesday for embezzling city funds.
Gillmore, 45, was also ordered to pay more than $66,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to a fraud charge in May, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
The plea agreement in the case says between January 2014 and June 2016, Gillmore used a city-issued credit card to make personal purchases.
The news release says Gillmore's actions cost the city $66,598.71.
Read more: http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2017/10/18/ex-walnut-grove-city-clerk-gets-prison-time-embezzling-city-funds/774093001/