Sheriff: CIC books are OK

By Donna Hales
Phoenix Staff Writer

October 04, 2008 12:24 am

— Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson said he has had his books checked and finds nothing amiss with the records Jackie Borovetz handled for the Community Intervention Center.
Borovetz, 57, was jailed in lieu of $200,000 bond Tuesday. She had been charged Monday with embezzling in excess of $340,000 from the court clerk’s office. Tuesday, auditors determined the amount embezzled was closer to $600,000 from November 2007 through Sept. 25.
Borovetz earned $1,200 a month working as a bookkeeper for the CIC, operated by the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office. Borovetz had been working in the District Court Clerk’s Office since September 2002. County records reflect she earned $3,300 a month in that position.
County records show she received $20 an hour for her bookkeeping work for CIC and consistently billed for 60 hours a month, County Clerk Karen Anderson said. That salary and Borovetz’s salary as the Muskogee County District Court Clerk’s bookkeeper totaled $54,000 annually.
She is no longer on the payroll, county officials confirmed Friday.
Borovetz did not take cash, but rewrote checks that were to go to public entities, paying them part of what the Court Clerk’s Office owed them for fines and court costs paid in, auditors said.
Borovetz then wrote checks in names of relatives, her maiden name and others, for the balance owed those entities, auditors told District Court Clerk Paula Sexton. Borovetz then endorsed those checks, signing the name of the payee. She would initial the signature and deposit them in an account under her control, Sexton said.
Meanwhile, computer records at the District Court Clerk’s Office appeared to be correct, said software computer expert Julie Patrick. Patrick works for the computer software program Kellpro, which services many court clerk offices in Oklahoma.
A copy of the canceled checks were returned by the bank to the Muskogee County Treasurer’s Office, where they were to be reconciled with county records.
Borovetz complained of having trouble breathing Thursday and was taken from the Muskogee County/City Detention Facility to Muskogee Regional Medical Center, confirmed Muskogee County Undersheriff Randy Perryman. She was treated at MRMC, prescribed medication and returned to jail, officials said.
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