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Published October 01, 2008 12:30 am - Missing funds total about $600,000 By Donna Hales Phoenix Staff Writer The amount missing from the Muskogee County District Court Clerk’s office has grown to about $600,000, District Attorney Larry Moore said Tuesday.
Jackie L. Borovetz, former bookeeper and deputy in the clerk’s office was charged Monday with embezzling in excess of $340,000. The amount grew as auditors received more documentation, Moore said. The prosecutor said he was going to recommend Borvetz’s bond be set at $100,000 but decided to double the amount, telling special District Judge Robin Adair that Borovetz had been “in the casinos” Friday, Sunday and Monday. “I object to him making this bogus, flamboyant statement — I know my client has not been in the casino,” said defense attorney Chris Blankenship. A warrant was issued for Borovetz’s arrest Monday afternoon. Law enforcement had been looking for her after she failed to turn herself in at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday. Borovetz and Blankenship walked in the courthouse about 3:15 p.m., just as Adair was preparing to remove his robe and leave his courtroom. Borovetz stood before the judge carrying a small Bible in her hands. Adair set the bond at $200,000 and ordered she “not be in a gambling casino or establishment of the same ilk, and she has to remain in Muskogee County during any time she is free on bond.” Adair also ordered Borovetz to surrender her passport within 24 hours. “This is a public tragedy and a personal tragedy,” Blankenship told the court. “She’s not going anywhere and turned herself in,” he said after Borovetz’s initial court appearance. He said gambling is symptomatic of a growing epidemic as far as Oklahoma society is concerned and is much an addiction as drug addiction. “She (Borovetz) has pled not guilty as a matter of procedure,” Blankenship said. “However, she’s here to be accountable and to cooperate with authorities completely.” Auditors for the software firm servicing the court clerk’s computer system and the state court administrator have been at the office since Thursday. State auditors are conducting a special investigative audit. Terri Watkins, the spokeswoman for the State Auditor and Inspector’s Office, said Tuesday that audit would take four to six weeks. Court Clerk Paula Sexton has said all fines or court costs paid into the office were properly credited to the account of the person who paid them. 
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