City investigating alleged embezzlement

The alleged theft of city funds brought Cottage Grove City Manager Richard Meyers, Mayor Tom Munroe, Council President Heather Murphy and City Attorney Sean Kelly together for a special press conference Monday afternoon.

Meyers began the conference with a statement describing the City’s discovery of the alleged embezzlement and the actions subsequently taken:

On Jan. 16, city staff discovered several financial discrepancies in the city utility accounts and began an internal investigation into what appeared initially to be a computer programming error,” Meyers stated. “It was quickly discovered that the problems were not a computer error but appeared to be an exploitation of a weakness in the computer software by an employee.”



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