Moss pleads guilty to embezzling charges
Cheryl Moss apologizes Thursday in Jackson County Superior Court to her former law-firm colleagues.
A would-be lawyer found herself in handcuffs and headed to prison Thursday after pleading guilty in Jackson County Superior Court to pocketing money earmarked for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Assistant District Attorney Christina Matheson said Cheryl Moss, 41, a former Coward, Hicks and Siler employee in Cashiers, pleaded guilty to five felony counts of embezzlement.
Moss bypassed multiple law-firm safeguards and siphoned off $41,465 from a $2.9 million trust, said Matheson, a prosecutor for District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch, who oversees the 43rd Prosecutorial District.