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Former Marshfield Municipal Clerk of Courts Charged With Theft of a Business Setting

Friday, March 18th, 2022 -- 8:55 AM

(Karren Madden, Marshfield News Herald) A former Marshfield municipal clerk of courts will be standing in front of a judge herself when she makes her scheduled initial appearance Monday in Wood County Circuit Court.

According to Karren Madden of the Marshfield News Herald, Susan B. Carlson, 68, of Marshfield, has been charged with three felony counts of theft of more than $10,000 in a business setting. If convicted, she faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on each of the three counts.

According to the criminal complaint, in December 2020, Carlson retired from her job as municipal clerk of court after working at the Marshfield Municipal Court for 20 years. When a new clerk took over, she began finding, in the old records, payments for citations that were incorrectly documented.

Carlson was the only person accepting payments for the Municipal Court and the only person authorized to make transfers between the court and the city's Finance Department.

A Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation special agent found someone recorded $25,629.90 into the city's computer program known as TIPPS between June 2018 and December 2020, but the money was not given to the Finance Department for deposit, according to the complaint.

The special agent also found $12,605.15 in receipts created in Microsoft Word between January 2015 and June 2018, but they were not entered into the TIPPS program. The money was not provided to the Finance Department, according to the complaint. 

The Marshfield Police Department also takes in payments. The special agent found an officer gave Carlson $34,699.27 in cash from payments made at the department between 2015 and 2020, but the money was never deposited, according to the complaint.

The special agent checked Carlson's bank records from 2015 through 2020. Carlson deposited $101,796.46 into one bank account through a series of 499 transactions, according to the complaint. Her net pay for the same timeframe amounted to $128,622.62.

Carlson told the special agent she and her husband had no other source of income other than tax returns and Social Security, according to the complaint. The total amount taken from the city was $73,934.32, according to the complaint.

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