Chelmsford woman charged with stealing $600K from adoption charity
By Globe Staff
A 60-year-old Chelmsford woman is facing federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges after she allegedly stole more than $600,000 from the adoption agency where she worked.
Natalie Fleury has been charged with 15 counts of mail fraud and five counts of tax evasion. Her husband, Thomas E. Fleury Sr., 60, who allegedly also benefited from the proceeds of the fraud, faces five counts of tax evasion.
From December 1998 through March 2006, Fleury defrauded the Florence Crittenton League Adoption Agency in Lowell, where she worked as office manager and bookkeeper, the US attorney's office said in a statement.
A woman who answered the phone this afternoon at the Fleury residence said, "I have nothing to say to you, thank you," then hung up.
The agency provides services for prospective parents in the United States who want to adopt children from foreign countries.
Prosecutors allege that Fleury altered checks the agency was issuing to a third-party vendor. Fleury allegedly made herself the payee, then deposited the checks into a joint checking account she shared with her husband.
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