In Thursday’s (12/15) Daily Record (York, Pennsylvania), Ted Czech writes, “A woman told police she stole more than $200,000 from the York Symphony Orchestra to support her gambling addiction while she was the orchestra’s office manager, according to charging documents. Phyllis Ann Shoff, 55, who also used the name Phyllis Ann LoPresti, faces five counts of theft by deception and two counts of access-device fraud. She is free on $10,000 bail. Shoff declined to comment Wednesday through someone who answered the phone at her room at the Travel Inn in New Cumberland. With an audit of the orchestra’s funds under way, York City Police charged Shoff in August with taking roughly $58,000 during a four-year period. Police filed additional charges Dec. 6, citing another almost $150,000 that was taken and stating that the thefts began in 2004. … In an interview with [Detective William] Follmer on Aug. 11, Shoff ‘admitted that she had stolen money belonging to the YSO, saying only that she had a gambling problem and she didn’t realize the extent of her problem,’ according to charging documents. Follmer said that, once she said that, ‘She asked that the interview be stopped at that point.’ ”
Posted December 15, 2011
