Former B.C. bookkeeper handed 6-year prison sentence for $1M+ fraud

Carey Earl’s former co-workers and friends packed a Kelowna courtroom Wednesday morning and watched silently as she was taken into custody by a court sheriff, to begin serving her six-year jail sentence.

Earl, 62, worked for 12 years as the bookkeeper for Access Human Resources, a publicly funded Kelowna company that provides services to developmentally disabled people in the community. The company’s executive director Cliff Andrusko began noticing accounting discrepancies in 2018 and a subsequent investigation uncovered her fraudulent scheme, where she funnelled more than $1 million from the company over a seven-year period.

Following a trial last fall, a jury convicted Earl of fraud over $5,000. During her sentencing hearing last month,

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