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A woman who worked as a Brooklyn courthouse employee allegedly stole $473,000 over the course of a decade, per a court transcript.

A woman who worked as a Brooklyn courthouse employee allegedly stole $473,000 over the course of a decade, per a court transcript.

Lori Argiro-DiPietro, 56, who initially pleaded not guilty when she was indicted in February on grand larceny, misconduct and tampering with public records charges, is accused of voiding cash transactions, then pocketing the money, authorities said.

Lori Argiro-DiPietro, 55, was arraigned on a 47-count indictment, in which she was charged with grand larceny and first-degree falsifying business records, among other charges.

A Brooklyn court employee system allegedly swindled nearly $70,000 from illegally forging court filings and pocketing the money.

Lori Argiro-DiPietro worked as a supervising cashier at the Kings County clerk’s office where a routine audit discovered she ran a scam for more than two years, until she was fired in August, prosecutors said.