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Former Oregon Fair worker pleads guilty to embezzlement
Saturday, January 12, 2008 | No comments posted.
SALEM (AP) — A former Oregon State Fair employee has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing about $94,000.
Deborah Gorski, 56, pleaded guilty Thursday to the theft from rental payments the Oregon High School Equestrian Team made to the fair.
Gorski had worked for the State Fair and Exposition Center more than a decade when the embezzling was discovered in 2006. She was an event and sales manager with a salary of more than $58,000 a year.
She also pleaded no contest to theft of a former friend’s bracelet.
LaNaya Ritson said the two once were advisers of the South Salem High School equestrian team.
She said her husband, Robert, gave her the bracelet before he died of cancer on Christmas 2000, and she meant for her daughter to inherit it.
“The sentimental value cannot be measured,” she said.
Her attorney, Paul Ferder, said Gorski did not have the bracelet in her possession. She was ordered to pay Ritson $5,000.
Ferder said Gorski had no criminal history and had gone through a feeling of insecurity at the time of the crimes, which he said were an “aberration of her normal conduct.”
Fair Manager Dave Koellermeier said the fair has taken steps such as software and cash-handling changes and training.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
Deborah Gorski, 56, pleaded guilty Thursday to the theft from rental payments the Oregon High School Equestrian Team made to the fair.
Gorski had worked for the State Fair and Exposition Center more than a decade when the embezzling was discovered in 2006. She was an event and sales manager with a salary of more than $58,000 a year.
She also pleaded no contest to theft of a former friend’s bracelet.
LaNaya Ritson said the two once were advisers of the South Salem High School equestrian team.
She said her husband, Robert, gave her the bracelet before he died of cancer on Christmas 2000, and she meant for her daughter to inherit it.
“The sentimental value cannot be measured,” she said.
Her attorney, Paul Ferder, said Gorski did not have the bracelet in her possession. She was ordered to pay Ritson $5,000.
Ferder said Gorski had no criminal history and had gone through a feeling of insecurity at the time of the crimes, which he said were an “aberration of her normal conduct.”
Fair Manager Dave Koellermeier said the fair has taken steps such as software and cash-handling changes and training.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
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