RMV clerk indicted in theft; Scam allegedly netted woman about $76,000.WORCESTER - A former clerk with the state Registry of Motor Vehicles was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. yesterday on charges she allegedly used her position as a teller to steal approximately $76,000. Diana Coroniti, 36, of Walpole, was charged with larceny larceny, in law, the unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of its use or to appropriate it to the use of the perpetrator or of someone else. over $250 by continuous scheme. Ms. Coroniti began working as a clerk at the RMV RMV Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (German Public Transport) RMV Remove RMV Registry of Motor Vehicles RMV Real Market Value RMV Respiratory Minute Volume (Scuba diving) RMV Ribgrass Mosaic Virus branch in Framingham in January 2001; in June 2004, she was transferred to the Milford branch, where she worked as a receiving teller. A receiving teller gathers and counts the checks and cash that come in daily to each RMV clerk and then prepares the daily bank deposit. Authorities allege To state, recite, assert, or charge the existence of particular facts in a Pleading or an indictment; to make an allegation. allege v. that Ms. Coroniti stole the money by taking advantage of her access to the various daily bank deposits at the RMV branch in Milford. She allegedly accepted checks submitted through the Truck Overweight Permitting Division but did not complete the corresponding transactions. At the end of the day, Ms. Coroniti would allegedly insert those checks into the daily deposit and pocket cash in the same amounts, thereby balancing the accounts. The Truck Overweight Permit Division only operates out of the RMV branch in Milford, and it was not computerized at the time of the alleged thefts. The transaction process is now handled primarily though the Massachusetts Highway Department The Massachusetts Highway Department (MassHighway) is the highway department in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of all state highways and bridges and signage of numbered routes. Internet site, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. authorities. Investigators allege that Ms. Coroniti stole $76,000 from the RMV between January and June 2005. In August 2005, an administrative hearing administrative hearing n. a hearing before any governmental agency or before an administrative law judge. Such hearings can range from simple arguments to what amounts to a trial. There is no jury, but the agency or the administrative law judge will make a ruling. took place and Ms. Coroniti was terminated from her position at the RMV. The state attorney general's office began an investigation in January 2006, after Registry officials reported the scheme, which was uncovered through an internal audit. Ms. Coroniti was indicted yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 27 in Worcester Superior Court. The prosecutor assigned to this case is Assistant Attorney General David Waterfall. The case was investigated by state police assigned to the attorney general's office, who were assisted by financial investigator Amy Szymaniak. |
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