Crime & Safety
Creve Coeur Bookkeeper To Be Sentenced In Embezzlement Case Friday
Karen Page was accused of stealing $234,000 from an insurance underwriter.
Karen Page, the former bookkeeper for a Creve Coeur insurance underwriting firm, will be sentenced in St. Louis County Circuit Friday following a guilty plea last month on a charge she embezzled more than a quarter of a million dollars over a three year period.
Page was charged in May 2012.
Authorities say Page deposited J. Berg & Associates funds into her personal checking account by forging her boss’ signature on checks. The thefts totaling $234,000 occurred over a period of time which began June 1, 2009.
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The firm's president told Patch last year the funds came out of company profits and not client funds.
Page, of Creve Coeur, entered a guilty plea March 1.
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