{"id":17769,"date":"2021-02-07T00:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=17769"},"modified":"2021-02-07T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T06:07:08","slug":"brick-woman-37-charged-with-stealing-260k-from-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/02\/brick-woman-37-charged-with-stealing-260k-from-employer\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Woman, 37, Charged With Stealing $260K From Employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17770\" style=\"width: 578px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-1.06.12-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17770\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-1.06.12-AM.png\" alt=\"Jessica Duffy, 37, of Brick Township (Photo: OCPO)\" width=\"568\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-1.06.12-AM.png 568w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-1.06.12-AM-400x472.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Duffy, 37, of Brick Township (Photo: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Brick Township woman is facing financial crime charges after allegedly taking $260,000 from her Point Pleasant Borough employer.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Duffy, 37, of Brick Township, was arrested Friday and charged with theft.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Duffy, who was employed as a bookkeeper at R.H. LeChard Marine Contractors, misappropriated approximately $260,000 from the company during the course of her employment. Duffy, a statement from prosecutors said, was not authorized to sign checks on the company account, \u201cyet wrote numerous unauthorized checks to herself, forging the signature of the company manager on each check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then deposited the checks \u201cinto her personal account for her personal benefit,\u201d the statement went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy was processed at Point Pleasant Police Borough Headquarters and released on a summons pending a future court date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/02\/brick-woman-37-charged-with-stealing-260k-from-employer\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brick Township woman is facing financial crime charges after allegedly taking $260,000 from her Point Pleasant Borough employer. Jessica Duffy, 37, of Brick Township, was arrested Friday and charged with theft. Prosecutors say Duffy, who was employed as a bookkeeper at R.H. LeChard Marine Contractors, misappropriated approximately $260,000 from the company during the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-1.06.12-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4CB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}