Oklahoma Man Admits to Embezzling $755K from Employer

April 1, 2019

An Edmond, Oklahoma, man has admitted to embezzling more than $755,000 from his employer and to tax fraud.

Court documents show 74-year-old Odis Aubrey King admitted in a plea agreement that he wrote more than 200 company checks to himself from 2009 to 2015 and forged the signature of the owner of the company, Oklahoma City-based Den-Con Tool Co., onto the checks, He also admitted to filing false tax returns by failing to report the money as income.

In the plea agreement King wrote that the guilty plea is in his “best interest.”

He also agreed to pay more than $755,000 in restitution and more than $115,000 in back taxes.

King faces up to 13 years in prison and $350,000 in fines when he’s sentenced in about 90 days.

Topics Commercial Lines Business Insurance Oklahoma

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  • April 5, 2019 at 1:17 pm
    PJ says:
    Chip, he can't afford to "buy a farm" anymore. LOL.
  • April 2, 2019 at 11:25 am
    Jack King says:
    Chris, I understand that part, but now he is giving back the $755k, so does he get a tax credit on the reversal of the undeclared revenue, thus a $115k tax credit?
  • April 1, 2019 at 3:48 pm
    Chris says:
    Jack King, he failed to report the stolen money on his taxes. That's why he, not the company, has to pay $115,000 in taxes.

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