Feb 3, 2006 5:35 pm US/Central
Gambling Apparent Motive In $400K Theft
Hastings, Minn. (WCCO) ―
A woman was charged Friday with stealing more than $400,000 from her former employer, Gateway Damon's.
Jennifer A. Rosvold, 36, of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., was charged with 11 counts of felony theft. Her employer owned three Damon's restaurants in the Twin Cities area.
According to the criminal complaint, Damon's reported the money went missing between February 2003 and March 2005 while Rosvold was a bookkeeper for the company. She was in charge of processing payroll and paying bills.
When the company closed its last metro area restaurant in early 2005, Rosvold was given permission to take the company computer home with her. Investigators said a Damon's manager repeatedly requested access to the computer to get a list of checks and bills paid by the company, but Rosvold refused.
The manger then contacted the bank to get copies of the checks and discovered Rosvold had made out numerous checks to herself. A police investigation found Rosvold wrote 402 unauthorized checks to herself, totaling $403,619.09.
Investigators said more than $148,000 of the money went to several casinos in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
"It appears that once again gambling was the primary motive for this theft, which is the largest prosecuted in Dakota County since 1996," said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.
If convicted on all counts, Rosvold could face more than 200 years in prison and more than $1 million in fines.
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