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Name: | Theresa Lawson |
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Born: | 1951 |
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Age: | 63 |
Country: | Australian |
Occupation: | Former mayor of the City of Ipswich |
Criminal / Fraud / Scam Charges: | 129 charges in total including: 19 of embezzlement (200 |
Criminal / Fraud / Scam Penalty: | 7 years' custody, with a non-parole period of 4 years (14 August 2004) |
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Theresa Lawson is an Australian fraudster who embezzled about $ 2.7 million during the period of 1999 to 2002. She held the position of a payroll clerk in the Woolworths supermarket, where she involved in accounting fraud and swindled petty cash and salaries of the employees from the company's safe. She used the swindled money in poker machine bets and luxury shopping. She was convicted in the year 2002 and was sentenced to seven years in a correctional centre. She later died in the year 2014.