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Woman charged with $176K embezzlement

LISBON — A St. Clair Township woman has been indicted for embezzling $176,000 from her employer.

Danielle C. Varrati, 37, was indicted this week in federal district court in Wheeling, W.Va., on five counts of wire fraud, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia.

Varrati is accused of transferring by wire $176,000 from where she worked in West Virginia to her personal bank account in Ohio on five occasions between April 2015 and August 2016.

The news release did not say where Varrati worked at the time but the alleged crimes are to have occurred in Hancock County, W.Va., which is just across the Ohio River from Columbiana County.

Varrati faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each count of wire fraud.

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