Mom of former St. Louis police chief gets 3 years in federal prison for embezzlement
ST. LOUIS • The mother of former St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for embezzling more than $2 million from her former employer.
Carol J. Dotson, now 71, of St. Louis, worked as the office administrator for a commercial real estate property management company in Olivette at the time.
Although she had a prior criminal record, the company owners took a chance, hired her and treated her like family, according to testimony in federal court Tuesday. She betrayed that trust by stealing from them for more than 20 years, beginning in the mid-1990s. Bank records were unavailable for the early years of her scheme, but from July 2003 to February 2017, she embezzled $2 million by writing 1,409 checks to herself, U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber said.
Dotson pleaded guilty March 1. Her public defender, Kevin Curran, said she spent the money on her daughter, her granddaughter and her mother. He said she didn't spend "a dime" on the former chief.
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