Check Fraud With Erasable Ink

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Prosecutors say a former deputy township trustee wrote checks in erasable ink to herself and her husband, then altered them after they cleared the bank....

Orsburn appointed his wife the deputy trustee, and beginning in 2000, she wrote 117 unauthorized checks from the township checking account payable to herself or her husband, prosecutors said.

"Most of the unauthorized checks were written in erasable ink. When the canceled checks were returned from the bank with the monthly statements, Teresa altered the checks to make it appear that they were payable to a township vendor. She also made false entries in the check registered to disguise the true payee," the news release said... Entire Story