BARRE, Vt.—A 36-year-old Barre woman, convicted in 2003 of embezzling nearly $95,000 from a business where she worked as bookkeeper, faces new charges of financial crimes.
Raylene Meunier, formerly Raylene Leibold, faces charges of "false personation" and "false pretenses or tokens," -- both felonies -- and violation of probation in two separate cases.
Police allege in court papers that Meunier defrauded a Barre man out of more than $1,200 in 2007 in a phony stock scheme; and that in 2006, she wrote checks without permission totaling $3,400 from the account of a man she was living with to herself, her mother and a friend.
Barre Police Detective Larry Eastman wrote in a sworn affidavit that Meunier posed as the personal secretary of John Casella of Casella
Police say Dickson made an additional loan of $220, but refused multiple requests that he provide an additional $4,500.
Police say Meunier denied most of Dickson's allegations, saying she never borrowed money from him or said she was a Casella employee.
On the allegations of improperly writing checks against the account of Mark Dindo, Meunier told investigators she had Dindo's permission to do so.
Both of the new felony counts against Meunier carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $2,000.
Meunier was working as a bookkeeper for Hill-Martin Corp. in 2001 when police began an investigation that ended with her arrest and conviction for embezzlement. Authorities said she used the ill-gotten money to buy a home in Barre Town, pay off bad debt on the foreclosure of a previous home in East Montpelier and for other expenses.
She was sentenced to three to 10 years, released on parole in 2005 and has been on probation since then.
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Information from: The Times Argus, http://www.timesargus.com/
