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Jun 25, 2009 2:59 pm US/Central
Charges: Real Estate Worker Stole More Than $220K
HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) ―
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Kuntee Singramdoo, of Lakeville, has been charged with more than $220,000 in theft while working as an independent closer at a Burnsville title and real estate company.
Dakota County Attorney's Office
A real estate closer and notary public has been charged with swindling more than $220,000 while working for a Burnsville, Minn. real estate company.
According to the Dakota County Attorney's Office, 49-year-old Kuntee Singramdoo, of Lakeville, racked up the total using a variety of methods to fraudulently acquire the money while working at Walsh Title & Real Estate Services in Burnsville.
She allegedly wrote checks for her own or family members' bills as part of real estate closings, and would then enter those payments on mortgage forms. She also allegedly prepared closing documents and then altered them later to reflect fraudulent payments.
The charges also state she never gave closing payment checks to the payee, and would reissue them to pay her own creditors.
Singramdoo has admitted to the state Department of Commerce that she embezzled and misappropriated client funds. She said she was coping with overwhelming personal debt and took the funds to keep her head above water.
Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom noted Singramdoo's charges as being part of an upward trend in large-scale embezzlement cases.
"This is the fifth theft-related case exceeding $150,000 that we have filed in Dakota County this year, compared to five such cases filed in all of 2008," he said. "This is a disturbing trend."
Singramdoo worked at Walsh Title & Real Estate Services between February 2004 and February 2008.
She faces eight felony theft counts, three by swindle. Her next court appearance is scheduled for July 13.
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