Anna Niles
Anna Niles
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RYAN G. WELDON
JAN 2 2 2020
Assistant U.S. Attorney
U.S. Attorney's Office Clerk, U.S. District Court
D1stnct Of Montana
P.O. Box 8329 Missoula
Missoula, MT 59807
105 E. Pine, 2nd Floor
Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (406) 542-8851
FAX: (406) 542-1476
E-mail: [email protected]
, Plaintiff, INDICTMENT
INTRODUCTION
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accounting services for Cresent Cross, LLP, Clair W. Daines, Inc., Genesis
Partners, LLC, Bitterroot Turf Farm, Inc., and other related business entities.
embezzled from those business entities by diverting funds through checks, stealing
cash, claiming leave she was not entitled to obtain, receiving unauthorized 401(k)
loan payments, and using business credit cards on personal expenses, none of
which was authorized. The investigation has shown that the defendant, ANNA
business entities.
Bozeman, in Gallatin County, in the State and District of Montana, and elsewhere,
the defendant, ANNA MICHELLE NILES, having devised and intending to devise
a material scheme and artifice to defraud, and for obtaining money and property by
means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, for the
purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, knowingly transmitted and caused
commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds for the purpose of
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trusted employee with multiple companies to gain access to the companies' books,
The defendant, ANNA MICHELLE NILES, intercepted and stole cash rental
payments from Cresent Cross, LLP. To conceal the stolen funds, the defendant,
ANNA MICHELLE NILES, wrote and obtained checks made payable from other
NILES, led the other companies to believe they owed money to Cresent Cross,
LLP, when in truth and in fact, no such business debts were owed. This scheme
allowed the defendant, ANNA MICHELLE NILES, to cover her stealing of the
cash deposits from Cresent Cross, LLP, because it did not appear as if Cresent
systems to secure unearned pay to herself and use funds to repay loans she owed to
her 401 (k). The defendant, ANNA MICHELLE NILES, therefore received
unauthorized and excessive leave pay and unauthorized and unapproved 401(k)
loan payments.
The defendant, ANNA MICHELLE NILES, used company credit cards and
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During the period of the indictment, it was part of the scheme and artifice to
defraud that the defendant, ANNA MICHELLE NILES, having devised and
intending to devise a material scheme and artifice to defraud, and for obtaining
and promises, as described herein, and for the purpose of executing the scheme to
pictures, and sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, that is,
checks as identified in the table below, which travelled to and from Bozeman, in
Gallatin County, in the State and District of Montana, and elsewhere, to and from
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A TRUE BILL.
Foreperson signature redacted. Original document filed under seal.
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United States Attorney