MARIETTA – Former Love County Treasurer Lorry Hull has been ordered to pay $16,009 in restitution for embezzling taxpayer funds in 2020.
The state’s multi-county grand jury returned an indictment in August charging Hull with seven felony counts of embezzlement from the county treasurer.
Hull, 46, of Ardmore, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Love County District Court. District Judge Wallace Coppedge determined her sentence and placed her on probation for five years.
The judge also ordered her to pay restitution, plus $315 in a victim compensation fund and $2,204 in court costs.
Her probation is of the type known as a suspended sentence. That means she won’t go to jail, but she will have a misdemeanor conviction on her record.
Grand jurors alleged she converted public funds for her own use in July and August 2020. Hull served as county treasurer in southern Oklahoma from February 2013 to September 2020.
Prosecutors told the grand jury judge in August that she is suspected of using the money for gambling.
“This crime was particularly serious because the embezzlement was committed by an elected official charged with the custody of taxpayer funds,” said Attorney General Gentner Drummond, whose assistants are advising the grand jury.
She was accused of embezzling a total of $21,499, but had returned $5,489 to the bank in August 2020 after coming under suspicion. She was allowed to pay off the restitution at a rate of $100 per month.
Hull was originally charged in September 2020. A month later, prosecutors dropped the two counts of embezzlement from the county treasurer to further investigate “all allegations” against her.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Four years after embezzlement, former Love County treasurer was convicted
