Illinois Library Director Charged
with Stealing $157,000
The director of the Homer Township (Ill.) Library District since its founding 17 years ago surrendered to authorities December 10 on charges that she stole $157,324 from the library over three years. Regetta Meyers, 54, has been charged with one count of theft and one count of official misconduct.
Meyers resigned in September after an audit revealed that the money was missing. Library board President Barry Levine said in the December 12 Chicago Tribune that Meyers’s refusal to cooperate with auditors had increased suspicion that something was wrong. He said Meyers had been “a good librarian,” and “she was someone I implicitly trusted.” Primary operating accounts for the library $1.2-million annual budget require two board signatures, he said, but smaller accounts do not.
The search for a new director has begun; meanwhile, the children’s librarian and an administrative librarian are overseeing the district, according to the Tribune.
Posted December 13, 1999.
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