Shelton Investigation
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Ethan 193 Fry | Mar 7, 2016 5:41 am
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The former Shelton official who stole nearly $1 million in taxpayer money has been released after serving less than half her prison sentence.
Sharon Scanlon, 51, left York Correctional Institution in Niantic Jan. 16, roughly 24 months into 54-month prison sentence handed down by a judge at Superior Court in Milford two years earlier, after she pleaded guilty to first-degree larceny and first-degree forgery.
Click the play button below to listen to the parole hearing.
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‘Parole Granted For Shelton Official Convicted Of Embezzlement’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Jun 29, 2015 9:37 pm
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The City of Shelton’s lawsuit against a former finance official who stole nearly $1 million of taxpayer money has concluded without a trial, according to court documents.
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‘Shelton Settles Lawsuit With Former Finance Official’
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Ethan Fry | Jan 30, 2014 11:02 pm
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Making her first public statement since being accused of stealing nearly $1 million in taxpayer money, Shelton’s former assistant finance director said Thursday she looted city coffers for nearly a decade because she was “scared and under stress.”
Faced with mortgage and credit card debt her lawyer estimated at $11,000 a month, the former official, Sharon Scanlon, said she “took the easy way out” by writing city checks to herself, cashing them, and then entering them as voided in the city’s books.
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‘‘Greed, Not Need:’ Former Shelton Official Goes To Jail’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Oct 24, 2013 1:28 pm
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Sharon Scanlon, the former Shelton official accused of stealing nearly $1 million from taxpayers over the course of more than a decade, took a plea deal Thursday that will see her sentenced to between three and seven years behind bars.
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‘Update: Former Shelton Official Faces Jail Time’
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Staff | Oct 7, 2013 6:10 pm
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Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti said Monday that Sharon Scanlon, the former city official accused of embezzling nearly $1 million from taxpayers, has forfeited her pension to the city, an indication that the criminal case against her may be winding toward a resolution.
Lauretti said that the city recently received a payment of about $130,000 representing contributions made — and voluntarily forfeited — by Scanlon to her pension plan over the course of her 17-year employment, and that the city will recoup most of the money she allegedly pilfered.
Meanwhile, the criminal case against Scanlon was continued Monday for the second time in less than a week.
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‘Mayor: Former Shelton Official Accused Of Theft Forfeits Pension’
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Staff | Mar 12, 2013 11:19 am
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The former Shelton official accused of stealing more than $900,000 from taxpayers pleaded not guilty to the charges at Superior Court in Milford Tuesday (March 12).
A judge continued the case against the official — Sharon Scanlon, the city’s assistant finance director until she resigned last August — to April 23.
Scanlon stands accused of a single count of first-degree larceny and 56 counts of first-degree forgery. She posted $100,000 bond in the case after her arrest in January.
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‘Former Shelton Official Pleads Not Guilty’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Mar 1, 2013 1:11 am
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The City of Shelton wants to know where Sharon Scanlon’s money is — and whether she’s been shifting it around since allegations surfaced last year that she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers.
The city has a civil lawsuit pending against Scanlon. It was filed in September, weeks after Scanlon, formerly the city’s assistant finance director, resigned under a threat of termination by Mayor Mark Lauretti, while a criminal investigation into the alleged theft was underway.
On Feb. 25, Ramon Sous, Shelton’s assistant corporation counsel, filed a motion in the civil case at Superior Court in Milford asking a judge to order Scanlon to disclose, under oath, property she owns or has an interest in, and any debts due her.
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‘Shelton To Scanlon: Show Us Your Assets’
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Ethan Fry | Feb 5, 2013 10:16 pm
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Armed with not much more than a sneaking suspicion, two finance clerks in Shelton City Hall triggered an investigation that eventually saw their boss charged with stealing more than $900,000 from taxpayers over 11 years.
The clerks’ former supervisor, Sharon Scanlon, was the city’s assistant finance director.
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‘Sleuthing Shelton Clerks Triggered Finance Probe’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Feb 5, 2013 12:52 pm
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A police affidavit in the case against former Shelton Assistant Finance Director Sharon Scanlon alleges she took more than $900,000 from city taxpayers over 11 years.
Scanlon appeared at Superior Court in Derby Tuesday, where the case charging her with stealing money from Shelton taxpayers and depositing it into her personal account was transferred to Milford court, where more serious criminal cases are heard.
Scanlon’s appearance Tuesday — the first time she has appeared in court — lasted less than a minute (see video).
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‘Cops: Scanlon Took More Than $900K’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Jan 24, 2013 12:16 pm
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Sharon Scanlon never lived the high life, her defense attorney said Thursday.
Scanlon, the former assistant finance director for the City of Shelton, surrendered Wednesday to state police after learning they had obtained a warrant charging her with 57 felonies in connection to the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city.
The precise dollar amount was not mentioned in the police press release and the warrant has yet to be made public.
William F. Dow III, who defended disgraced former Gov. John Rowland on corruption charges in 2009, is no stranger to cases in which people in power are accused of improperly using their positions to enrich themselves — and neither is the Valley.
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‘Lawyer: Scanlon Didn’t Live High On The Hog’
