TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A former Kansas city clerk awaiting federal sentencing for embezzling more than $100,000 from a real estate company has admitted in court that she bilked her town of more than $75,000.
Forty-three-year-old Janetta Marie Buttery of north-central Kansas’ Bennington pleaded guilty Monday in Topeka to one count of interstate transportation of stolen funds.
Prosecutors say Buttery admitted that as Bennington’s clerk from October 2014 to last May, she misused credit cards belonging to the city and its recreation commission.
Buttery already had pleaded guilty in May to charges that she stole more than $109,000 while she worked as a secretary, bookkeeper and executive assistant at Realty Associates of Salina.
Buttery faces up to a decade in prison and up to $250,000 in fines when sentenced in both cases.
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