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A Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Funds from the Huntington Airport

An Ohio woman who was finance director for a West Virginia airport has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $49,500 in federal funds from the facility. Melissa Sue Hall of South Point, Ohio, pleaded guilty to theft from programs receiving federal funds, U.S. Attorney Will Thompson’s office said. Hall admitted that between May 2020 and January 2021 she stopped depositing all of the money she collected from vending machines at the Huntington Tri-State Airport into airport accounts and also took money meant to be deposited into ATMs. Hall is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 15 and faces up to 10 years in prison. She agreed to pay restitution, the prosecutor’s office said.

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