By Cathy Locke
clocke@sacbee.com
The former executive director of a Yolo County organization that advocates for children has pleaded no contest to grand theft from an employer.
Claudean Medlock, 54, of Carmichael, former executive director of Yolo County Court Appointed Special Advocates, was arrested after her employer was notified July 27 of irregularities in its bank account. Medlock had embezzled nearly $46,000 from CASA, according to a Yolo County District Attorney's Office news release.
As executive director, Medlock was entrusted with a CASA debit card, which she used to take multiple cash advances, totaling approximately $30,000, to gamble at various casinos in the region. She also forged checks and falsified expense reports to obtain approximately $16,000.
Medlock was hired by CASA in July 2009. A month later, a case was filed in Sacramento Superior Court accusing her of embezzling from her previous employer, California Musical Theatre, where she had served nearly two years as the theater's director of development.
Medlock pleaded no contest to those charges in November 2009, but a CASA spokeswoman said earlier this year that Medlock did not list her employment with California Musical Theatre when she applied for the CASA job. Because that court case wasn't initiated until August 2009, no red flags were raised when her fingerprints were submitted to the state Department of Justice as part of a background check, officials said.
As part of her sentence, Medlock will be ordered to pay full restitution to CASA, according to the District Attorney's Office.
She will be sentenced Dec. 8, and faces up to one year in county jail and five years of felony probation.
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