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<h3><span style="color:#360505;"><strong>Manhattan bookkeeper allegedly wrote 99 checks payable to herself and deposited them into her account</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#360505;"><strong>Michiko Diaz, 57, a former assistant accountant for Kobe Steel USA, embezzled $800,000 between 2006 to 2012</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#360505;"><strong>Diaz used part of the loot to pay off $80k penalty for ripping off previous employer</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#360505;"><strong>Funds stolen from her previous employers allegedly used to &#8220;pay for [her] daughter&#8217;s wedding, credit card bills&#8221;</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#360505;"><strong>Charged with grand larceny, possession of a forged instrument and criminal tax fraud, held on $0.4m bond</strong></span></h3>
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<h6 class="ra-caption">Diaz appearing at her arraignment flanked by her lawyers Glenn Hardy (l) and Ted Goldbergh (r) at the Manhattan Supreme Court in NYC</h6>
<p>Michiko Diaz, 57, a Kobe Steel USA bookkeeper embezzled about $800,000 by writing a total of 99 checks to herself from the company, part of which was used to pay back money she owed in New Jersey for a similar fraud, prosecutors said Tuesday.<br />
Prosecuting, Assistant District Attorney Lisa Zito, stated that Diaz, who had been convicted of stealling from a former employer in New Jersey, wrote 99 unauthorized checks from Kobe to herself, between 2006 and 2012, and managed to keep up the charade for years without detection.<br />
&#8220;She deposited them into her own personal Bank of America bank account,&#8221; Zito said at Diaz&#8217;s arraignment. &#8220;With that she created false journal entries into the business records of Kobe Steel to cover up these checks.&#8221;<br />
Diaz allegedly owed about $80,000 in restitution to her former company and spent some of the funds she embezzled from Kobe to pay it back. She also used it to &#8220;pay for her daughter&#8217;s wedding, her credit card bills&#8221; and other &#8220;personal expenses,&#8221; the ADA said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;She said the two most important words &#8211; not guilty,&#8221; said Diaz&#8217;s lawyer Glenn Hardy outside the courtroom. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be investigating the case.&#8221;<br />
Due to the statute of limitations, her current charges related only to 2011 and 2012<br />
The Japanese native, who has has lived in New Jersey for the past 15 years, was ordered held on $400,000 bond in Manhattan Supreme Court at her arraignment for grand larceny, possession of a forged instrument, criminal tax fraud and ordering a false instrument for filing.</p>
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Manhattan bookkeeper, Michiko Diaz, embezzled $0.8m from her employer, Kobe steel USA, part of it to pay off $80k penalty for ripping off previous employer
