Embezzlement raises questions about hire

Regarding the article in the Daily Bee on Nov. 5, 2013 titled “Embezzler dodges additional incarceration.”

The $20,000 that Dana Marie Braaten embezzled from the Panhandle Animal Shelter is more of an issue than her attorney states “she did not use the ill-gotten gains to finance a luxurious lifestyle.” Braaten out and out stole those funds from me personally and everyone else who is a donor to the non-profit. Who cares what she was doing with the money? Braaten was taking that cash directly from my checking account and not using it for the animals as was intended. The issue with “the complicating effect further incarceration would have on the defendant’s ability to make restitution” is ludicrous! Who in the world would hire this woman when she was previously convicted of embezzlement from a Kootenai County manufacturer in Dalton Gardens, and now PAS? I am outraged that the plea agreement was time served in the Kootenai case, and a paltry sum of $300.

Which begs the question; why did the PAS hire this convicted embezzler in the first place?

CHRIS McINTOSH

Sandpoint