OK Turnpike Employee Charged with Embezzling Payments for Back Tolls and Violations

The Oklahoman reports, “A former Oklahoma Turnpike Authority employee was charged Wednesday [January 11] with two felonies, accused of embezzling payments made by turnpike users.” The report adds, “While employed with the agency, [the former employee] allegedly wrote his daughter’s Pikepass account number on checks meant for back tolls and toll violations. He would deposit the funds into his daughter’s account and then perform an ‘administrative override’ to make the violation balances zero, an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent reported in a court affidavit.”