Former City Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft
Christine Hooper stole more than $30,000 by submitting inflated overtime hours.
A former Department of Public Works employee pled guilty on Thursday to theft in excess of $30,000 by filing fraudulent overtime hours. Christine Hooper, 46, an employee of the Department of Public Works since 1986, received a one-year suspended sentence, three years of probation and was ordered to repay the city for submitting overtime hours between Sept. 1, 2009 and April 20, 2011 that she did not work, according to a news release from the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office. On April 11, 2011 public works supervisors notified the Baltimore City Office of the Inspector General of concerns that Hooper, who was working as an administrative officer at the Ashburton Water Treatment Center, was filing falsified overtime and compensatory …
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