It took four years to prove it, but a B.C. Provincial Court Judge finally ruled in December that former Alpha Secondary bookkeeper Jodi Fingarsen had indeed been caught with her fingers in the cookie jar when she was fired by the district in 2010.
Fingarsen was convicted of two counts of fraud over $5,000.
The case against her involved 85 cheques, including bogus Alpha Secondary cheques made out to her directly, third-party cheques made out to businesses and individuals owed money by Alpha, and third-party cheques made out to the Vancouver real estate consulting firm Altus Group from clients.
Worth a total of nearly $99,000, they were all deposited into Fingarsen’s personal accounts at automated teller machines.
