PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — A former cashier in the Clallam County treasurer’s office has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for embezzling as much as $794,000 from tax proceeds.
The Peninsula Daily news reports (http://bit.ly/qqNhF4 ) that Catherine A. Betts maintained her silence about the crime in court Wednesday, when Superior Court Judge S. Brooke Taylor told her she’d been motivated by “world-class greed.”
A jury found her guilty last month of 27 of stealing between $617,000 and and $794,000 from June 2003 to May 2009.
Her public defender said he would immediately appeal the sentence.
Betts appeared in court in a wheelchair. Her attorney had asked for a 90-day sentence, saying she suffers from diabetes, breast cancer and nerve damage in her leg.
