A Springfield woman has been sentenced to prison by a Nevada judge for passing bad checks worth $160,000 at casinos. In April, the same woman was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison in an unrelated embezzlement case. Illinois Times covered the federal case in May. Susan Satterlee of Springfield will serve her 46-month sentence in a federal prison at the same time as the 12- to 30-month sentence she got as part of a plea deal in Nevada. Prosecutors in Clark County, Nevada, alleged that in August 2014, Satterlee knowingly wrote five bad checks totaling $160,000 at Las Vegas casinos to get cash or gaming chips. The checks were from accounts at United Community Bank and Illini Bank in Springfield. Satterlee’s federal sentence stems from a separate case in which she pleaded guilty to money laundering, wire fraud and filing a false tax return after the FBI found out she stole $2.5 million over five years from the Springfield business where she worked. According to the inmate locator feature on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ website, Satterlee is not yet in custody. Read more online about Satterlee’s federal case at bit.ly/slowheist.
This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2016.
