Audit identifies thousands more missing in VFD embezzlement scandal

Karl Goering, a certified public accountant with Armstrong, Vaughn and Associates, delivers a preliminary report on audits in progress covering finances for the Devine VFD for the years 2023 through 2025. (Photo by Anton Riecher)

By Anton Riecher
Latest audit results for the Devine Volunteer Fire Department covering the years 2023 through 2025 reveals nearly $35,000 more in missing funds or fraudulent charges in an embezzlement scandal that brought a massive upheaval to local emergency management in the past year.
The new estimate is in addition to more than $76,000 missing from over a two-year period.
On December 5, 2024 the VFD office administrator Heather Shultz was arrested and still faces charges of “Tampering with evidence”.
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