Car Dealership's Former Comptroller Charged with Stealing

A former comptroller for a car dealership has been indicted on charges of stealing $838,000 from that business, the Rockland District Attorney's Office said Wednesday.

The 49-year-old is accused of stealing $829,000 from daily cash deposits between January 2005 and February 2009, the District Attorney's Office said in a news release. She is also being accused of stealing $8,866 through being double paid between 2007 and 2009 and failing to report that income to the Department of Taxation.

The theft was discovered via an audit.

She has neither been arraigned nor entered a plea on the six-count indictment. She faces a maximum of 15-years in state prison if convicted of the top counts.

The grand jury charged her with two counts of second-degree grand larceny and one count each of third-degree grand larceny, third-degree criminal tax fraud, fourth-degree criminal tax fraud and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.