Ex-County Employee Gets Seven Years for Stealing
A former Los Angeles County employee convicted of stealing from the treasurer-tax collector’s office was sentenced Friday to seven years, four months in prison and ordered to repay more than $170,000.
Debra J. Aguirre, 39, of Norwalk pleaded guilty Sept. 28 to one count of embezzling public monies and two counts of state tax evasion, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James M. Ideman ordered Aguirre to repay $169,202 to the county and $3,753 to the Franchise Tax Board, Gibbons said.
Aguirre stole the money from the county between Jan. 10, 1995, and Feb. 1, 1996, while working as a cashiers supervisor for the treasurer-tax collector, Gibbons said.
Prosecutors said Aguirre took cash payments made by mobile food vendors and other vendors working out of the county fairgrounds in Pomona. The money was supposed to go toward environmental health and public health taxes.
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