KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Nevada, Missouri, man appeared in federal court on Thursday and embezzling $1.5 million from his employer and then failing to disclose that money on his federal income tax returns.

Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri said Justin R. Marquardt, 55, was the executive director at his employer, and thus had access to the company’s accounts from 1994 to 2023.

Marquardt told the court he stole the money from his employer’s bank accounts and transferred the money into his own accounts. He also wrote unauthorized checks from business bank accounts to himself.

Marquardt used the stolen funds on personal expenses like traveling and gambling online and at casinos, prosecutors said.

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