From The Free Lance-Star: Theft case moves to feds to prosecute [emphasis mine]:
A Caroline County woman accused of stealing money from the private law firm of Caroline’s chief prosecutor is now under federal indictment.
Shelia [sic] Boone, 49, is charged with two federal counts of bank fraud and one of aggravated identity theft.
As a result of the federal charges, state embezzlement charges were dropped yesterday, said Richmond city prosecutor Sangeeta Darji.
Darji said the identity theft charge would carry a mandatory two-year minimum jail term if Boone is convicted.
Boone was a secretary for Harvey Latney, who is Caroline County’s commonwealth’s attorney and also runs a private law firm in Richmond. She is accused of stealing money–at least $271,000–from clients at Latney’s private law firm. She has charges in Caroline County.
Latney is not suspected of any wrongdoing. Boone no longer works for him, although she is still listed as his secretary on Caroline County’s government Web page. Boone is alleged to have forged Latney’s signature on checks to herself from an estate account.
The fraud was discovered when the commissioner of accounts, who oversees estates in escrow like this one was, did not receive reports from Latney on what was going on with the estate.
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Boone’s federal court date has been set for Nov. 5 before Judge Henry Hudson.