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DaLean Annette Rials (Supervisor)
AWC/2009019405601

Rials misappropriated approximated $70,000 from her member firm. Rials, as operations manager of her firm’s branch office, had authority to approve credits to customer accounts up to a specified dollar amount without additional approval. Rials used this authority to credit reimbursements totaling approximately $50,000 for non-existent fees and expenses in accounts belonging to her friends and family. Rials then withdrew the credited amounts from family accounts or received cash or checks from friends for the credited amounts.

Rials submitted expense reports for approximately $20,000 in personal expenses, falsely identifying them as legitimate business expenses. Rials improperly accessed her supervisor’s computer and approved some of her own expenses reports.

DaLean Annette Rials (Supervisor): Barred

Tags: Expenses  Computers