(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Yale man has been charged with embezzling more than $12,000 from his employer in less than three weeks by using a company credit card for his own use, primarily at casinos.
An arrest warrant was issued last week for Daniel Keith Miller, 41, but court records indicate he has not been taken into custody.
Yale Police Officer Ken Moore wrote in an affidavit filed last week that the alleged embezzlement was reported on Feb. 21.
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 alleged.
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 alleged.
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 alleged.
“Mike McCullough nor any other supervisor at Moore Iron and Steel authorized Daniel Miller to make these charges,” the affidavit alleged.
“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 alleged.
Miller admitted “to using the card to get money for his own personal use,” the affidavit alleged.
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 alleged.
“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 alleged.
“Daniel Miller also knows the money gram money orders have not been cashed.
“Regardless of the fact that the money orders have not been cashed, and even if he did give them to the victim, Daniel Miller has made no effort since Feb. 2014 to make any other restitution,” the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of embezzlement, Miller could be given a five-year prison term, a $5,000 fine and an order to pay restitution, court records show. ***
