Hard Time For Teresa York After Costly Jackson County Embezzlement Hot Mess

Newspaper reports the decision on Courthouse drama: "A former Jackson County court administrator (Teresa L. York, 59) who admitted embezzling tens of thousands of dollars for gambling and other personal use was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $139,536."

Here's the notice from the Feds that details her misdeeds:

FORMER ADMINISTRATOR SENTENCED FOR EMBEZZLING FROM JACKSON COUNTY COURT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former court administrator for the Jackson County Circuit Court was sentenced in federal court today for a fraud scheme in which she embezzled more than $140,000 from the circuit court.

“This highly paid public official abused her position of trust and authority to steal from the court month after month, year after year, and did not stop until she was caught,” Dickinson said. “She lavished public money on personal luxuries and secretly enriched her boyfriend. Now she is being held accountable for breaking the laws she was sworn to uphold.”

Teresa L. York, 59, of Blue Springs, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to two years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered York to pay $139,536 in restitution.


York was appointed as the court administrator for the Jackson County Circuit Court in 2003. She was placed on administrative leave on June 4, 2012, after her embezzlement was discovered, and resigned on July 2, 2012. York pleaded guilty to mail fraud on Nov. 21, 2014.

York admitted that she engaged in a scheme to defraud the court between January 2009 and June 4, 2012. York used court-paid credit cards for her own personal use and purchased gift cards paid for by the court for her own personal use. York also entered into a fraudulent contract for which no services were ever provided and which primarily benefited a person with whom she had a romantic relationship.

As a result of York’s fraudulent actions, the total loss to the court was $142,278. After being confronted with her embezzlement scheme and placed on leave, York reimbursed the court $2,742, resulting in a total loss of $139,536.

Credit Card Scheme

The Jackson County Circuit Court used credit cards to pay for court business, such as judicial travel and Missouri Bar expenses. These credit cards were collectively referred to as purchasing cards, or “P-cards.” As court administrator, York was an authorized user of the P-cards.

York admitted that, from 2009 to 2012, she used the court’s P-card to purchase:

* $2,252 for gas for her personal driving, even though the court used mileage reimbursement forms to reimburse business driving;

* $9,532 for personal items and gift cards from Amazon;

* $6,446 for personal items such as clothing and make-up;

* $8,350 for personal meals;

* $487 for U.S. postal stamps for her personal use (the court uses metered postage for its mail, rather than stamps);

* $46,535 for Apple computer products (the court did not use a system compatible with Apple computers);

* $35,356 for gift cards. (York kept most of the gift cards, in the amount of $29,371, for her personal use and distributed $5,985 of these gift cards to court staff, on a merit system determined by her, as a type of bonus. The amounts of the cards were more than the Internal Revenue Service de minimis requirements for income reporting, however, the cards were not ever tracked or reported as income.)

York also sold some computers owned by the court and kept the proceeds of the sales for her personal use.

The loss to the court from York’s credit card scheme was $79,438.

Contract Scheme

York also engaged in a fraudulent contract scheme. On Sept. 30, 2010, York entered into a contract with CBDM Services, LLC, on behalf of the court, purportedly for workflow analysis (a business process review, a customer service evaluation and an organizational redesign). The amount to be paid was originally $68,000, although it was later increased to $69,500.

CBDM was not organized as a company at the time the contract was signed. CBDM and its owner, identified in court documents as “N.D.,” were actually a front used to conceal the true contracting party, identified in court documents as “B.V.” York did not disclose to the court that B.V. would be receiving more than 90 percent of the payments made to CBDM or that she had a romantic relationship with B.V.

At York’s direction, the court paid CBDM a total of $64,500, although no usable work product or report was produced. Of the $64,500 paid by the court, the owner and only principal of CBDM (identified in court documents as “N.D.”) kept approximately $2,000 plus banking fees and sent the remainder, approximately $62,000, to B.V.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen D. Mahoney. It was investigated by the FBI.

Public Corruption Hotline

The FBI has established a toll-free public corruption hotline, 1-855-KCPCTIP, and email KCPCTIP@ic.fbi.gov. Details regarding the various types of public corruption investigated by the FBI can be found online: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/corruption.
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Comments

  1. Mop handle rapes and lotsa smelly nigger cunt to eat for two years.

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  2. So she will do 6-8 months for stealing from the tax payers. I wonder what I would get for stealing $150.000 in multiple felonies. Just another case of who ya know.

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  3. Fucking cunt, will likely be out in six months or so. What a rotten bitch! She, like so many others of her ilk, get away with shit like this, all the time. When does this crap stop? When??

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  4. There is a whole set of unwritten laws for these motherfuckers.

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  5. Far out. Where can I get me a job like that?

    Oh, I see. I can't. Don't know nobody important.

    Kansas City, corruption-wise, is the asshole of the universe.

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  6. She will go to Club Fed like Glazer did which isn't no fucking jail.

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  7. Cupid Stunt

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  8. She is getting pointers on the whole experience frm The dishonorable Deborah Neal.

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  9. This was a Federal case. She will do the FULL 2 years and pay ALL the restitution.

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  10. 10:21 If you believe that all Federal sentences are fully served then you need to go read the law.

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  11. Bitch will be applying to get her law license reinstated in a couple of years, and she has all the right connections, so she will be back in the game in no time. In Jackson County. She has dirt on a lot of people.

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  12. She shouldn't have been able to bilk the taxpayer so long. There should be some kind if checks in place that raise a red flag when staff is purchasing makeup and women's clothes with court credit cards. Hell I got a checkup call at my job about an invoice for purchasing a couple hundred dollars of magnets because they seemed out of the ordinary.

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  13. Was she a Bishop York?

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  14. Not to worry she still has her government pension....

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