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Golf Course Employee Skims $95,000 by Claiming Fake Refunds – Faye Randolph

In some parts of the country, municipal golf courses are great cash cows for cities strapped for funds and they bring in a small, but steady stream of much needed revenue. In other places, the clubs struggle to hang on, sometimes costing towns money to keep them open. Then there’s the Eagle’s Landing Golf Club in Sevierville, Tennessee where the course should have been making good money of the past two years, but wasn’t. Seems like a lot of golfers were buying rounds and then asking for refunds. And we’re talking about a LOT of refunds: over 95K worth in just over two years. That’s a lot of guys changing their minds after the fact, and how often does that seem to happen?   Trouble is, it only seemed to happen when Faye Randolph was working the cash register.

So, after only two years and all that missing money, someone finally decided to investigate and now Faye is accused of creating fake refunds to cover the fact that she was allegedly skimming from the golf course. She even reportedly created a second set of books to hide the fact that there weren’t any refunds.  No word yet on what Randolph allegedly spent the money on, but guessing from the mug shot at right, it was something wild, right? Right?

Here’s more on the story from KnoxNews:

Faye Randolph, 46, arrested last week after a grand jury returned a seven-count indictment, created records showing fictitious refunds for rounds of golf at the former Eagle’s Landing Golf Club to conceal cash she took from the clubhouse between Jan. 1, 2008, and March 14, 2010, according to a letter released by state authorities.  Officials allege that Randolph stole $95,139 from the course.

Randolph is accused of destroying the original records that reflected the actual amounts of money collected from course fees, Dycus wrote. The actual amounts collected were significantly higher than what Randolph reported on a regular basis, according to Dycus.

Swim Team Treasurer Admits Embezzling $175,000 From Organization

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Photo Courtesy stopnlook at Flickr.com

Has the cost of chlorine shot up that much in the past few years that you wouldn’t notice nearly two hundred thousand dollars missing from your team bank account? Either Lynn Gottschalk was one of the biggest con artists to ever walk the streets of Ohio or, as we suspect, parents of the Sycamore Flying Fish club were so glad someone was watching their little ones that they just kept writing bigger and bigger checks without asking for a full accounting of how the funds were being spent.

Lynn Gottschalk admitted Wednesday that she stole as much as $175,000 when she was treasurer of a swim team.  Gottschalk, 50, of Montgomery, became a convicted felon when she pleaded guilty to theft, a crime that carries a maximum prison sentence of 18 months.  She stole the money from the Sycamore Flying Fish swim team when she was treasurer from September 2004 to August 2009.  “The theft began almost immediately upon her taking the position of treasurer,” said Mark Seger, team president when the theft was discovered.  Financial records, Seger said, show Gottschalk used team money to pay for items that included car payments, summer camp for a child, a vacation cruise and theater tickets. Those expenditures were some of the spending that left the team nearly bankrupt by the time Gottschalk’s five-year tenure as treasurer ended in August 2009.

Swim team official stole $175K (Cincinnati.com) Thanks to reader Gary S. for the link!


Cheerleader Mom Accused of Stealing Over $27K From Squad – Patti Hicks Rose

Stealing money from a youth sports team: Is there anything lower? Okay, maybe taking money from a bunch of sick kids.  Or old people  . . . maybe. But the fact that this continues to happen and no one seems to notice for YEARS in some cases is still puzzling to us. As are the large sums of money (sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars) that seem to disappear and no one even notices.

Does anyone else think that parents today are trying to ease the pain of ignoring their kids by signing over large checks to almost complete strangers who offer to watch them for a few hours play sports? How else do you explain how this keeps happening over and over again? “Yes, I know we asked you for $5000 earlier this year but we need another $3000 per child for, uh, new uniforms. They’re really good uniforms. Oh, and please don’t sign the check on the hood of my new Mercedes.”

We do appreciate the latest person charged, Patti Hicks Rose, for her attempt to verbally stiff-arm the school principal who inquired about the missing money. Rose’s response? I’m getting married and I’ll have to call you back later. Brilliant!   You do have to wonder if this will put a crimp on the wedding plans?

Here’s more on the story from the AJC:

Patti Hicks Rose, 48, was charged with theft by conversion and later posted $30,000 bond, according to Cobb County jail records. Rose, of Sharpsburg, was released from jail Tuesday afternoon.  Rose, whose daughter was a cheerleader before graduating from Wheeler, was the treasurer for the school’s cheerleaders for about two years, beginning in January 2008, Cobb County schools spokesman Jay Dillon told the AJC. She is accused of using $27,297.05 of the cheerleader money for her personal use, according to her arrest warrant.

School system police investigated the missing money and obtained an arrest warrant for Rose, who served as the treasurer for the school’s cheerleading association. When the association noticed the missing money, the new president and treasurer contacted the school principal, who notified school police.

The principal sent a letter and e-mail to Rose, who replied once and said “she was getting married and would call him later,” according to the incident report. Rose declined to respond to additional requests regarding the missing money, the report states.

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