Chickasaw woman pleads guilty to embezzlement

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Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005 | 9:51 a.m.

CHICKASAW, Ala. -- A woman indicted on a charge of embezzling about $1.7 million from the Chickasaw Housing Authority has pleaded guilty in federal district court.

Therese Brown, 53, entered the plea Tuesday. According to the indictment, Brown embezzled $1,678,269 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the care of the Chickasaw Housing Authority. Investigators have said she gambled away most of the money she stole at the casinos on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Brown, who had worked as an in-house accountant for the authority for about 19 years, was fired Feb. 16 after authorities learned of the missing cash.