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Under the terms of a plea deal, 52-year-old Roxanne D. Elliott of Hackensack will be sentenced to 364 days in the Bergen County Jail. She also must pay back the money to solo practitioner John Weichsel — her employer of 26 years.
- UPDATE (March 22): Superior Court Judge Edward J. Jerejian gave Elliott a way to avoid jail. READ MORE….
Elliott admitted that between Dec. 14, 2010 and June 13, 2011 she wrote five checks from her employer’s bank account to her own.
She did so by “forging her employer’s signature on various checks, transferring funds between accounts and issuing checks made payable to herself without the consent or knowledge of her employer,” New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said.
Deputy Attorney General Frank Brady and Detective Abraham Aquino, both from the Division of Criminal Justice’s Financial and Computer Crimes Bureau, coordinated the investigation. Deputy Attorney General Brady represented the Division of Criminal Justice at this morning’s hearing.
Chiesa thanked the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office for referring the matter to the Division of Criminal Justice. He also thanked the Hackensack Police Department for its assistance in the investigation.
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