A woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $710,000 while working as a clerk at an Orange County high school, records show.
Cynthia Marie Campbell, 64, of Midway was sentenced Friday to 14 years in state prison after entering her plea to 222 felony counts of misappropriation or embezzlement of monies by a public officer with sentencing enhancement allegations of aggravated white collar crime exceeding $500,000.
Prosecutors accused Campbell, a former student finance clerk at Esperanza High School in Anaheim, of stealing approximately $709,084 from the Associated Student Body over a five-year period before she retired in 2017, prosecutors said.
The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District discovered that the funds were missing during an audit, authorities said.
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