Brenda Palmer helped create fake invoices to bilk Montgomery Public Schools out of $291,367.
Brenda Palmer’s trial was set to begin Monday until she pleaded guilty to the four counts.
Palmer was the interim chief financial officer for Montgomery Public Schools when the fraudulent billing scheme was perpetrated between November 2017 and April 2019. To avoid detection, Palmer forged at least two employees’ names on checks and other written instruments and directed employees under her to work overtime to prepare legitimate checks so the fraudulent ones would be less likely to be noticed, according to the attorney general.
When examiners with the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts began their yearly audit of the MPS system in 2019, they requested supporting documents for many of the fraudulent checks. Palmer was asked to help produce some of those check files. Instead of providing those check files, Palmer shredded them and claimed that she bypassed procedures because she just wanted to get vendors paid.
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