Officials at TCAT say they’re trying to move on following the sentencing of a former employee who stole from the company.
Pamela Johnson, a former accounts assistant for TCAT, got 90 days in jail Wednesday for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars of the company’s money. She was arrested last year, and a judge in the case has also ordered her to pay back the money she stole.
Patty Poist, a spokesperson for TCAT, said they’re relieved the case is over.
“It’s been a long 15 months, and indeed we’re relieved that we’re going to be recovering this money,” she said. “We’re relieved this has come to a conclusion, and now we can fully focus on the business of operating a public transit agency.”
Poist said there’s also been discussion on whether Johnson should shoulder the cost of TCAT’s legal and audit fees during the case.
“Judge John Rowley is going to take that into consideration in the following days,” she said. “We hope we’ll be able to recover those dollars as well, so we trust out justice system, and justice will prevail.”
