MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) A woman who embezzled more than $400,000 from Creola and Prichard – and gambled part of it at casinos – will spend a year in prison, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer imposed the sentence on Kim Wright Green. He also ordered her to be on supervised release for three years after her sentence and undergo treatment for a gambling addiction.
Green, 50, of Loxley, pleaded guilty a year ago to a pair of embezzlement charges and filing a false federal income tax return. She admitted that she embezzled $241,581 from January 2013 to February 2017 when she was Creola city clerk. She admitted that she fraudulently manipulated the payroll system in order to produce higher paychecks.