Financial Fraud: Scott Raymond Beard Sentenced For Theft of Public Funds and Money Laundering

Scott Raymond Beard Sentenced

<h2>Former Deschutes County Sheriff Captain Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Theft of Public Funds and Money Laundering<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>EUGENE&comma; Ore&period; – On Thursday&comma; September 8&comma; 2016&comma; Scott Raymond Beard&comma; 46&comma; a former Deschutes County Sheriff Captain and resident of Deschutes County&comma; Oregon&comma; was sentenced to five years in prison by U&period;S&period; District Judge Michael J&period; McShane for stealing over &dollar;200&comma;000 in public funds he was entrusted to manage&period; At least sixty-three times over a two-year period&comma; Beard falsified records to steal money designated for use in combating drug crimes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the sentencing hearing&comma; Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson attested to the damage Beard’s abuse of trust caused to the community&comma; and to the men and women working in law enforcement&period; Sheriff Nelson explained that Beard &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;betrayed the ideals of the law enforcement profession&period; He was in a position of absolute trust&comma; and he abused this trust for his own gain&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judge McShane acknowledged the importance of citizens being able to have complete trust in those called to serve their communities as police officers&period; When imposing the sentence&comma; he admonished Beard that the community has to know that this conduct will not be tolerated&period; Judge McShane pointed to Beard’s pervasive violation of the public trust placed in him by Sheriff Nelson&comma; fellow law enforcement officers&comma; state prosecutors&comma; and his own community&period;  Judge McShane further ordered Beard to serve three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the investigation&comma; Beard told federal agents that he donated &dollar;10&comma;000 of the stolen money to a South African orphanage&period; Orphanage records show that his actual donation was less than &dollar;92&period; In reality&comma; Beard laundered the money through the bank account of his mistress&comma; Krista Jean Mudrick&comma; showering her with cash to support a lifestyle that included vacations and multiple cosmetic surgeries for Mudrick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The sentencing followed Beard’s May 2016 guilty plea to two counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and two counts of money laundering&period; An audit ordered by newly appointed Sheriff Nelson uncovered Beard’s crimes&period; After a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Beard and Mudrick&comma; the Sheriff’s office fired him&period; Mudrick has also been federally charged with making materially false statements to federal agents investigating Beard’s crimes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>U&period;S&period; Attorney Billy J&period; Williams said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Law enforcement officers who steal public funds harm the entire community&period; We rely on the honesty and integrity of every law enforcement officer to do the right thing&period; Beard’s greed undermined the good work done by his fellow officers and this sentence sends a clear signal that crimes committed by law enforcement officers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law&period;”  Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon of IRS Criminal Investigation commented that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Criminals are sentenced to prison every day for actions driven by greed&comma; but the level of greed that Beard sunk to is really beyond belief&period; This is an individual who&comma; as a member of the law enforcement community&comma; took an oath to uphold the law&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FBI and IRS-CI jointly investigated this case and it was prosecuted by Assistant U&period;S&period; Attorneys Christopher Cardani and Frank R Papagni&comma; Jr&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-or&sol;pr&sol;former-deschutes-county-sheriff-captain-sentenced-five-years-prison-theft-public-funds">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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