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Former Fire Dept. Bookkeeper Charged With Theft, False Statements To Feds
May 31, 2013
Tony Gene Broxton, Jr., age 54 of Pace has been charged with theft of public money and making false statements to federal agencies.
The four-count indictment charges that Broxton stole money from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and made fraudulent statements to both agencies regarding his employment as the treasurer and financial officer for the Pace Fire and Rescue District (PFRD).
Count one charges Broxton with stealing over $140,000 from the SSA between 2008 and 2013. Count two charges Broxton with stealing over $60,000 from the VA from between 2009 and 2013. Count three charges Broxton with falsely stating to the VA that he had no job and no one would hire him due to his disabilities, when in fact he was actively employed by Pace Fire at the time. And count four charges Broxton with falsely stating to the SSA that he was not paid for his work with the Pace Fire Rescue District and that his wife had worked full-time for PFRD, when in fact Broxton’s wife did not work for PFRD and payments for Broxton’s work as treasurer and financial Officer of PFRD were made directly to his wife, in her name.
Broxton is scheduled for trial on July 8 before Chief U.S. District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers. If convicted, Broxton faces a maximum of 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for each count of theft, as well as a maximum of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for each count of making a false statement.
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5 Responses to “Former Fire Dept. Bookkeeper Charged With Theft, False Statements To Feds”
Pace Fire can do what it wants, there is no one watching the hen house except for the fox. The other MSBU “fire departments” in Santa Rosa are not being watched either. Would not be surprised of other illegal, or extremely shady deals happen
Ok how can PFD make his paycheck out to his wife? Isn’t that fraud on their part? Nobody found it odd that he requested they make all checks payable to her for tax purposes would they have to report who the paid and if they aren’t reporting who is actually working they are at fault as well!!!
ONCE AGAIN I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE FIRE DEPT. WOULD BE MAKING THE CHECKS OUT TO THIS MAN’S WIFE WHEN THEY KNEW HE WAS THE ONE DOING THE WORK ?????????????SOUNDS FISHEY TO ME.
By my calculations he was making a very nice living bilking the system.Then you have those who rightfully deserve benefits and can’t get them.
Glad to see he was caught. He was like some other people I have heard of using the system for gain. It’s hurts us all for someone to do that and makes it hard for the ones who need it to get it. We are all invested in all those programs as we pay our taxes. Our Veterans and Fireman have a hard enough time without people like this making matters worse.
Now let’s let justice take place.