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MILWAUKEE -- A former staffer of a food bank has been charged with stealing $360,000 from the charity over a span of seven years, police said.
Shuntell Whittaker-Tucker, who had worked at America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin for 16 years, was charged Thursday with three felony counts related to the thefts.
According to a criminal complaint, the 38-year-old woman took money customers paid the agency for food before it was deposited into a bank account between 1998 and 2005. She was in charge of the agency's cash and bank deposits until 2005.
The missing money then showed up on the agency's records of cash received for food and other items that didn't appear on its bank deposit records, or a separate spreadsheet she maintained for the agency, the complaint said.
According to the complaint, Whittaker-Tucker denied taking the money and said a computer error could be to blame for the missing money.
The complaint said the food bank reported the receipts matched up when Whittaker-Tucker was on medical leave for two months in 2003.
Whittaker-Tucker faces up to 25 years in prison and fined up to $45,000 if convicted of all three counts.
She was scheduled to make her initial appearance in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Friday.
MILWAUKEE -- A former staffer of a food bank has been charged with stealing $360,000 from the charity over a span of seven years, police said.
Shuntell Whittaker-Tucker, who had worked at America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin for 16 years, was charged Thursday with three felony counts related to the thefts.
According to a criminal complaint, the 38-year-old woman took money customers paid the agency for food before it was deposited into a bank account between 1998 and 2005. She was in charge of the agency's cash and bank deposits until 2005.
The missing money then showed up on the agency's records of cash received for food and other items that didn't appear on its bank deposit records, or a separate spreadsheet she maintained for the agency, the complaint said.
According to the complaint, Whittaker-Tucker denied taking the money and said a computer error could be to blame for the missing money.
The complaint said the food bank reported the receipts matched up when Whittaker-Tucker was on medical leave for two months in 2003.
Whittaker-Tucker faces up to 25 years in prison and fined up to $45,000 if convicted of all three counts.
She was scheduled to make her initial appearance in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Friday.