A former Boulder Parks and Recreation Department employee is facing felony charges of theft between $500 and $15,000 and unauthorized use of a city purchasing card after authorities said she made personal charges on a city credit card last year.
Mary Austin is suspected of making charges of just less than $10,000 from February to October 2006 and fraudulently represented the charges as being for legitimate city business, according to city officials in a news release. The city has received restitution from Austin for the fraudulent charges, the city said.
In October, the city began investigating Austin’s credit-card purchases, which led to a criminal investigation, according to the release.
Austin, who had been a full-time city employee since August 2004, left the city voluntarily in October to accept a job with another organization.
