Hoboken housing aide admits embezzlement Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/17/06
NEWARK: The former accounting manager at the Hoboken Housing Authority pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling $111,083 from the agency by writing checks to himself, federal prosecutors said.
Eric D. Hurt admitted he wrote 34 such checks from August 2001 to February 2004, falsely reporting that the checks were to vendors. Hurt, 38, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement and one count of a false tax return for 2003. He is to be sentenced Nov. 21 by U.S. District Judge Harold A. Ackerman and could get up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines.