$135,129.27

(Due to recent events, some names will be excluded to protect the guilty)

The above amount is what she was charged with, not $20,000. In the paperwork we received, she also made an upfront payment of $8,400. Where did she get this amount of money? She is on probation from 2014-2024. Crystal asked Dad why he didn't know it was this amount and why didn't he go to court with her. She told him not to, that she had it handled and it was no big deal, so he stayed home.

We later learned that during a probation like this you are not supposed to leave the surrounding counties without your probation officers permission or to leave the country without the judges signature. Her and dad went multiple places. Cloudcroft, Ruidoso, Lake Spence, Virginia, and they event went on a cruise outside of the United States, not once but twice. We have proof that she did not receive permission to go out of the country.

The first cruise was with her son and daughter-in-law in 2015. The second time was with me and my wife in June 2018. When preparing for our cruise, we asked them if they were getting their passports and she told me no, they would use their birth certificates and drivers licenses. We later realized it was because she couldn't get a passport. Our cruise went to Cozumel, Belize and Honduras. We scheduled a Mayan Ruin tour in Belize. The night before our excursion, our tickets and a letter were left on our bed. The excursion ticket had a time and location on the ship we should meet at to get off the ship and where we needed to be. The letter was talking about how everyone was going to get off the ship and into Belize because we had to use a tinder boat to get to the shore. The letter discussed locations for other groups to meet. During breakfast the next morning we were discussing where we needed to go and after I mentioned that we were to go where the ticket said to go, she started to argue and state that we were supposed to meet where the other groups met which was in the letter. When I started to disagree with her, she snapped at me and bit my head off. At that point, I dropped it and we did what she wanted to do. We waited for hours to get off the ship and by the time we got to shore, we had missed our excursion. Luckily, we were reimbursed for the cost of the excursion by credit to use on the ship. Did she intentionally make us miss the excursion because they didn't have any extra money to spend, or was it really a mistake? After getting home and starting to figure out what was going on, we realized that we were aiding and abetting and didn't even know it. When I found out she was on probation, I contacted her probation officer and let them know that we had first hand knowledge of her being out of the country. I sent photos and proof. I was asked about alcohol or drug use. Well anyone that had ever been around her knew she liked to drink and she drank while on the cruise. To this day, we do not have any knowledge of anything being done with the information provided. How can someone who we have now found out embezzled not once (1980's), not twice (dermatologist office), not even three times (real estate management), but four times (property management) that we are aware of, and violated probation not go to jail?

Now some other questions are coming up and the light bulbs are finally turning on. Things for once are finally starting to make sense. Could she be the reason for some other things that had happened. While filing my taxes in 2015, which I do myself, I was told I couldn't because someone had already filed under my information. I had to start doing some research and go to the tax office and find out that my identity was stolen. Through painfully long wait times, we caught it in time. Who ever filed taxes under my name was about to have a check sent to an address that I hadn't lived at in 7-8 years. We were able to get the check stopped and had to manually file our taxes. Now you would say well this could be actual identity theft, but I have never had anything else happen, no other accounts opened in my name, no attempts to try anything else. Surely she didn't do it, but then again.

We've been wrong before