(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Yale man who admitted embezzling more than $12,000 from his employer by using a company credit card for his own use, primarily at casinos, has been placed on five years’ probation, Payne County Court Clerk Lori Allen told KUSH today.
Daniel Keith Miller, 41, was given a five-year suspended sentence by District Judge Phillip Corley on Friday.
The embezzlement was reported on Feb. 21, 2014, Yale Police Officer Ken Moore wrote in an affidavit.
Mike McCullough said that Miller, an employee of Moore Iron and Steel Corporation, “had used a company credit card for personal use,” from Dec. 20, 2013, through Feb. 6, 2014, the affidavit said.
McCullough said that a credit card had been issued to Miller for fuel and truck maintenance, the affidavit said.
The card issued to Miller was used at Osage Casino for $7,397.90, at Fire Lake Grand Casino for $282.99, and at River Spirit Casino for $3,687.25, for a total of $11,353.14, the affidavit said.
Bank service charges were $611.86, while other charges for such things as cigarettes, food and beverages were $775.42 – bringing the total to $12,755.42, the affidavit said.
“Mike McCullough nor any other supervisor at Moore Iron and Steel authorized Daniel Miller to make these charges,” the affidavit said.
“Mike McCullough said he called Daniel Miller after these charges were found and Daniel Miller told him he felt he was not being paid enough, so this was his compensation,” the affidavit said.
“Miller admitted “to using the card to get money for his own personal use,” the affidavit said.
Miller was “to start paying back what he had stolen, but as of Aug. 15, 2014,” had not paid any money back to the victim,’’ the affidavit said.
“Although in Daniel Miller’s statement he said he had paid back $2,000, the victims say they have received nothing,” the affidavit said.
Miller provided the Yale police officer with two money order stubs: “he says this is where he paid them back $2,000,” the affidavit said.
“Daniel Miller also knows the money orders have not been cashed,” the affidavit said.
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