Plainville condo association secretary/treasurer embezzled over $75,000
Record Journal
By Lauren Sievert Record-Journal Staff
04 October 2017

PLAINVILLE — A local woman faces a felony larceny charge after police said she embezzled over $75,000 from the condominium association where she served as treasurer for five years.

Amy Lausier, 50, of 122 Milford St. Ext., was charged Tuesday with first-degree larceny. She was arraigned in Bristol Superior Court on Tuesday and released on $10,000 bond.

She is due back in court on Oct. 18.

On July 31, an owner of one of the condominiums in the Milford Manor Condo Association, 122 Milford St. Ext., reported money was embezzled from the association. The owner, also a member of the condominium board, had begun questioning the $320 monthly association fee about six months prior after noticing not much work was being done to the 16-unit complex, according to Lausier’s arrest warrant.

The owner/board member eventually received an expense report from the then president of the association, whose name was not released, and the president’s wife, Lausier, who served as the association’s treasurer and secretary.

After the owner/board member noticed discrepancies, the association held an emergency meeting on June 23. At the meeting, the association attorney provided an email from Lausier stating that she was “so sorry that I misappropriated the association’s money,” the warrant said.

A new association president reviewed the association’s bank accounts from 2013 forward and estimated around $30,000 was missing, the warrant said. Police completed a detailed review of the association’s bank accounts and found unauthorized cash withdrawals, checks written to “cash,” the warrant said. Lausier was the only authorized person on the accounts. Police also noticed that around the time Lausier bought a Hyundai Sonata in 2013, there were several electronic transfers to Hyundai Motor Financing, the warrant said.

The police investigation found in 2013 there was about $7,810 in misappropriated funds, in 2014 there was about $16,049, in 2015 there was $30,915, in 2016 there was $16,625 and so far in 2017 there was $4,050, the warrant said.

Police also found the association lost $30,000 in fees because Lausier hasn’t paid her fee in 10 years. There was also a loss from back taxes owed to the town, bank fees and tax penalties, the warrant said. Lausier’s mother sent a check for $20,000 to the association, which was applied to Lausier’s unpaid association fees, the warrant said.

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