Former Brookfield Public School Finance Assistant Arrested for Conspiracy to Commit Larceny

Editor’s note: This article was published earlier this week but here it is again, in case you missed it.

A former business operations analyst for Brookfield Public Schools was arrested Wednesday, according to the News Times.

Elizabeth Kerekes, 41, Brookfield, is alleged to have conspired with another school official in the misspending of more than $30,000 for personal expenses.

Kerekes is one of two former Brookfield Public Schools employees to be arrested in relation to misappropriation of school funds for personal use. Last March Patch reported that former finance director Art Colley, 57, was charged with second-degree larceny and third-degree forgery. He was accused of trying to claim reimbursement for three iPads that were never purchased.

An audit revealed nearly $124,000 in questionable spending by former Brookfield schools finance director Art Colley and his assistant Elizabeth Kerekes. The forensic audit analyzed more than 600 transactions involving Colley , Kerekes and other present and former school employees, the paper reports. The expenditures included payments to Colley’s daughter’s landlord, credit car payments and payments for electronics.

Kerekes is due in Danbury Superior Court at 10 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2015.

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