The former employee of the city of Tallahasee gets a day in prison, the day of probation after the theft 28,000 US dollars, as recorded

Tallahasee, Florida (WCTV) – A former city of Tallahassee, which had received a day in prison and a day with “administrative probation” after he had overpaid 28,634.80 US dollars, as court files show.

The 69 -year -old Harrell Sukhram was convicted last month for 39 crimes, including Grand Theft, organized program for scammers, the criminal use of personal identification information and crimes against computer systems to obtain property.

Court files show that Sukhram manipulated the wage and salary billing protocols to increase its compensation, using several fake user profiles that he created in the city system. In order to create the accounts, he used the personal information of other city employees, including five, which had died, per arrest work.

“Based on the facts mentioned above, there are indications of Harrell Sukhram deliberately and knowingly accessed (city) systems and files in the city network and then manipulated the files and data contained therein), without the approval against (law) (Tamy Dammy, Tammy, Pinkyton, in a probable affidavit).

Judge Stephen Everett ordered Sukhram's decision back. According to the Florida bar, this means that Sukhram has approved probation and pays back fines, and in return he has no conviction in his recording.

Sukhram was sentenced to a day in prison, one day of probation and a refund for all 39 charges, as recorded.

Court documents also say that he paid back the money before his last trial when he entered a plea “Nolo Contendre”, which means that he admitted that the state had the evidence of condemning it without officially admitting the guilt.

His condemnation took place last month, more than two years after his arrest in 2023, according to the Leon County Clerk of Courts website.

In the two years since the identification of a “discrepancy”, the city has not announced Sukhram's termination nor its criminal complaints in its payment. When city administrator Reese Goad was reached on Thursday evening, she said that the city had no comment and instead referred to court files.

A submission of the state stated that the main goal of the city is “the return of the funds in full”.

The affidavit of the likely thing is unclear when the city has informed the other employees that their information had been compromised or whether they have informed the family about the deceased.

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An examination of the city that went back to 2012 found a change in (city) systems that Sukhram only benefited from 2020 to 2022, “wrote a detective in Sukhram's arrest documents.

Records show that the city of Sukhram had given a salary increase just a few months before its crimes began and unknowingly offered him accommodation, as was allowed to work from home during his program.

Sukhram had submitted a letter of withdrawal at the end of 2019 after finding out that another employee had received a larger increase than he had received. But he remained in the Tallahasee salary statement after the city agreed to give him an increase of 10%, which also applied to several salary checks this year.

In addition, the 69-year-old was allowed to work from a distance from the summer of 2022, the detective wrote. Court files list his title as “Senior Architect for Import/Integration Processes”.

Court files show that the salary account manager Tricia Scott “only discovered a discrepancy on Sukhrams Pay -Line in early December of this year”. He was suspended three days later.

He was ultimately fired in the next week according to the affidavit.

However, Sukhram was able to further create fake accounts on the city's system for four days after his discharge, according to his arrest papers.

When another employed Sukhram asked why he was released, he replied: “The allegations are that I don't work enough, and there are a few salary check problems” according to court files.

In a later interview with the law enforcement agencies, Sukhram said that a manager had approved his time card and that an “error” in the salary billing system had credited additional hours.

However, the investigators found that someone with high access and “institutional knowledge”, in this case Sukhram, actually edited a file with wage and salary account exports, not a working time table.

A submission from the public prosecutor shows that Sukhram still receives some age information. But he had to leave a “significant part of his retirement advantages” as part of his punishments.

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