A former state employee has been charged in a theft involving between $1,500 and $25,000 in forged Maryland Department of Labor checks.
According to court documents, 10 felony charges are filed on June 3 in two cases, including falsifying private documents and issuing false documents.
A former clerk in the department allegedly altered copies of checks owed to the state and deposited them into personal bank accounts, according to a news release from the Maryland attorney general last week announcing her indictment.
After the department fired the defendant in 2022, she allegedly continued to deposit counterfeit checks from her time as a state employee.
In the second case, the defendant, a 45-year-old woman from Essex, allegedly forged the signature of a former colleague to file a fraudulent insurance claim for lost wages from the state in June and July 2023, long after she was fired .
The defendant is scheduled to make his first appearance in Baltimore County Circuit Court on July 8, according to court documents.
