Video Poker 24/7 - Partee Must Make Restitution

Video Poker 247 - Partee Must Make Restitution

Margaret Partee, 63, of Carnegie, has been ordered to pay restitution for the money that she stole to support her video poker addiction. Partee is the former Carnegie police secretary, and she stands accused of taking almost $70,000 from the borough over the time that she worked there.

She has been admitted to the county’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program and must pay the borough $30,000. The ARD program is for those who have committed a crime but are only first time offenders. Once she completes her probation and has satisfied the terms set forth by the judge, her records will be expunged.

Carnegie Borough Council President Bob Kollar said that he agreed to the deal because he felt that if they went to trial the taxpayers wouldn’t get any of their money back at all. This way he feels that they will at least get back a portion of it.

He said that they have also changed the accounting rules so that this sort of thing cannot happen again. Partee took thousands of dollars from the borough to support her video poker addiction. The irony of the situation is that Partee stole money to play video poker from the borough’s mechanical device fees which pay for video poker machines.

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