Washington Park clerk admits embezzling

EAST ST. LOUIS -- Sentencing is set for next March for a woman who admits embezzling nearly $144,000 from the southwestern Illinois village of Washington Park while she worked as a payroll clerk.

Thirty-eight-year-old Dorothy Triplett pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in East St. Louis to two counts of misapplication of property of Washington Park.

Triplett was a payroll clerk and worked in the mayor's office when she embezzled the money in 2006 and 2007.

Court documents show that money was transferred to various accounts under Triplett's name several times a month and sometimes up to three times a day. The transfers ranged from $200 to nearly $6,000.