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C.F. woman pleads guilty to Clay embezzlementBy ANN LANGELCourier Staff WriterA Cedar Fails woman who allegedly embezzled $'207,000 from her employer pleaded guilty to the crime Monday.Evon Wedemeier, 47, of 2820 Cedar Heights Drive in Cedar Falls entered her guilty plea in district court to first-degree (heft.Sentencing will take place in six weeks. Judge L.D. Lybbert told Wedemeier that the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He said Wedemeier will be required to make restitution,Wedemeier had been a Clay Equipment employee for 14 years and had most recently been the director of human resources when she was asked to resign in a staff reduction effort in September, according to records.Police allege that just after she was asked to resign, she confessed to taking money from the employee health care fund from January 1982 toSeptember 1991.That information was reported to company management, who notified police. An auditing firm estimates the amount embezzled at $207,000. The account books for the fund had not been audited since 1982, about the time the alleged embezzlement started, according to records. She was the sole executor of the fund.There was no plea agreement in the case, and Wedemeier said she was pleading guilty because she is guilty.
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