by | Sep 25, 2015 12:42 am | Comments (0)
The Town of Oxford’s lawsuit against a former tax collector who pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $250,000 of taxpayer money has concluded without a trial.
The lawsuit against the former official, Karen Guillet, had been pending for nearly five years.
by | Mar 16, 2015 3:51 pm | Comments (0)
Karen Guillet, the former Oxford tax collector given a four-year prison term for stealing nearly $250,000 from town coffers, has been transferred to a halfway house after serving more than two years in prison.
Guillet, 65, now lives at Johnson/Silliman House, a 26-bed facility in Hartford designed to prepare female offenders for transition back into the community.
She was transferred to the facility Thursday (March 12).
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by | Aug 13, 2014 4:23 pm | Comments (0)
Nearly two years after being sent to prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, the questions for former Oxford Tax Collector Karen Guillet were the same.
Why?
Was it to feed a gambling addiction? Buy drugs? Was she struggling to pay her bills?
No, Guillet told members of the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles Wednesday. “Just total greed.”
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by | Aug 12, 2014 11:08 am | Comments (0)
NOTE: Oxford First Selectman George Temple announced today that former tax collector Karen Guillet has a parole hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday at the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles, 55 West Main St. in Waterbury. He said he will deliver the following remarks:
Click here for background in the criminal case.
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by | Jan 10, 2013 10:45 pm | Comments (0)
When former Oxford Tax Collector was sentenced to serve four years in prison for pilfering hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money last November, she said justice was being served.
But the town’s coffers are still waiting.
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by | Nov 8, 2012 6:37 am | Comments (0)
Just before sending former Oxford Tax Collector Karen Guillet to prison for four years Wednesday, Judge Richard Arnold held a thick stack of documents in his hand called the pre-sentence investigation.
It was a court-prepared report meant to give the judge a glimpse into Guillet’s background, paint a picture of who she is and, possibly, provide a clue as to why she stole $243,902.18 from Oxford taxpayers.
by | Nov 7, 2012 6:39 pm | Comments (0)
Judge Richard Arnold sentenced former Oxford Tax Collector Karen Guillet to serve four years in prison Wednesday after a sentencing at Superior Court in Milford that lasted nearly an hour.
“Ms. Guillet, you have brought shame upon everybody you have touched,” Judge Arnold said before handing down the four-year term on a single count of first-degree larceny to which Guillet pleaded guilty in July. She was arrested by state police — on charges of stealing taxpayer money — last November.
In addition to the prison time, Guillet will be on probation for five years after getting out of jail, during which Judge Arnold ordered her to pay a total of $243,902.18 to the town.
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by | Oct 17, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
Attorney General George Jepsen announced Wednesday that former Oxford Tax Collector Karen Guillet’s pension has been “revoked in full.”
According to a press release issued by Jepsen’s office Wednesday about 11:30 a.m., Guillet has signed a “stipulation for judgment” agreeing to the revocation of her pension — which would have paid her $1,814.33 monthly, or $21,776 per year.
Guillet is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 29 in Superior Court in Milford after pleading guilty in July to first-degree larceny, a felony, for stealing money from Oxford taxpayers.
by | Oct 15, 2012 2:43 pm | Comments (0)
The state’s attorney general filed a civil lawsuit today seeking to revoke or reduce former Oxford tax collector Karen Guillet’s pension.
Guillet is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 29 in Superior Court in Milford after pleading guilty in July to first-degree larceny, a felony.
Connecticut law allows a public official’s pension to be revoked or reduced if the public official is convicted of a crime connected to his or her public office.
Guillet stands to collect a pension of $1,814.33 per month, which works out to $21,771.96 annually, according to a spokesperson for the attorney general’s office.
by | Oct 1, 2012 10:31 am | Comments (0)
Oxford’s Don Pelletier, 62, has collected about 500 signatures on a petition calling for the town’s former tax collector to spend the next five years in prison, Oxford Patch reports.
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