Julie A. Lee, former comptroller for The Town & Country Club in St. Paul, Minn., has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and filing a false tax return; Samuel Dean Drodofsky, former General Manager of Little Crow Country Club in Spicer, Minn., has pleaded guilty to one felony count of theft; and Rocco Panucci, former Chief Executive…

Shawn Gover, 47, changed his name to Aaron Roberts, a person who died as a young child, and used his Social Security number and date of birth to obtain a job as Director of Finance for the Midlothian, Va., club, and then steal $33,557 from the club. Gover faces four years in prison. Shawn Gover, 47,…

Erick Antonio Hernandez fatally stabbed fellow employee Emmanuel Bravo at Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles last October, and has been sentenced to 36 years to life in prison. Neva McDaniel, the former Club Manager of Portales (N.M.) Country Club, has been arrested on 54 counts of embezzlement after admitting to stealing more than $25,000…

Julie Ann Lee, 53, allegedly embezzled more than $1 million from the St. Paul, Minn., club by stealing cash and writing fraudulent checks over the course of eight years. Lee has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and six counts of filing false tax returns. Julie Ann Lee, a former controller of Town…

Chaise Vegas appeared in court March 29 on charges of theft after he was arrested in January following a two-month investigation into finances of the Milford, Neb., golf course. In an affidavit, police said Vegas took $141,725.64 from the club over 18 months through unauthorized withdrawals from the course’s payroll and operating accounts.

Neal Morton, former Director of Business Affairs at the Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif., property, which is owned by Clint Eastwood, was sentenced to 19 months in federal prison after embezzling $182,000 over a five-year period.

Charlotte Hill Hendry is facing felony charges of embezzling, falsifying corporate books, and evading taxes during her tenure at the Stockton, Calif., club, beginning in 2008. Hendry was arrested at her new job as a bookkeeper at the Tropicana Las Vegas.

Sam Drodofsky, the Spicer, Minn., club’s Golf Pro and General Manager for 13 years, allegedly told a Board member that he had taken an undetermined sum of money from the club from 2011 to 2015. Drodofsky has apologized and promised to make full restitution, having already paid the club $100,000. The Board has not decided whether to pursue civil or criminal action.

Dawn Snow pleaded guilty on October 20 to multiple felony charges related to the embezzlement of nearly $600,000 over the course of seven years from the KemperSports-managed club. Snow was immediately sentenced to four years in prison.

This week’s crime briefs include incidents involving clubs and golf courses in Texas, Michigan, California and New York.

Missing payroll reports sparked an IRS investigation into the bookkeeping practices at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown, Iowa. An amateur golfer who got and shared stock tips through his membership at Oakley CC in Massachusetts was sentenced to over a year in prison.

The company that operates the Staten Island, N.Y., property is accused of under-reporting more than $86,000 in revenue to the city and failing to file taxes since 2009. In California, the former controller of The Crossings at Carlsbad is accused of stealing over $500,000 of public funds.

Jeffrey James must serve a prison sentence and pay $33,000 in restitution for not paying taxes on $250,000 he allegedly embezzled from the Irving, Texas club.

Jeffery James embezzled more than $250,000 from the Irving, Texas club between 2006 and 2009, and failed to report the stolen money on his federal tax return.