PORTLAND -- A Glenburn woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for embezzling funds paid to a Portland apartment complex with residences funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A judge sentenced 59-year-old Kelly Ballinger to 5 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered her to pay nearly a million dollars in restitution.

Ballinger was a former property manager at a Portland apartment complex, where from October 2015 to June 2021, Ballinger stole rent payments made by tenants in the HUD voucher program by instructing them to pay with a blank postal money order. She then would fill in her own name on the payee line, often adding notes like "Groceries" to the memo line to disguise them as reimbursements.

She would then deflate the te

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