Moday Jan 8, 2024
An ex-bookkeeper at an Alamo Heights architecture firm is facing criminal charges related to a roughly $1 million embezzlement scheme.
A federal grand jury in San Antonio on Wednesday indicted Sarah Jean Lingle, who worked as a bookkeeper and office manager at the Sage Group for almost five years, on five counts of wire fraud and four counts of filing a false tax return.
Lingle, 39, joins a gallery of other former San Antonio-area bookkeepers who have been arrested or indicted on charges of stealing from their employers.
glamorous lifestyle, complete with photographs of them in exotic locales and showing off a new Audi automobile, luxury watches, designer shoes and home improvements.
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Sage Architecture sued the couple in September 2022, alleging they paid for that lifestyle with money stolen from the firm. It said it had discovered $1.6 million in thefts from charges on a company debit card.
In the civil lawsuit filed in state District Court in San Antonio, Sage obtained a default judgment against Chris Lingle when he failed to respond to the allegations against him. But there’s been no activity in the case in over a year. Chris Lingle has not been criminally charged.
Sage officials reported the alleged embezzlement scheme to the Alamo Heights Police Department on Aug. 26, 2022, 10 days after Sarah Lingle resigned. A police official had told the San Antonio Express-News that the case had been turned over to the U.S. Secret Service.
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