Ngozi Pole

Ex-Staffer For Kennedy Charged With Stealing $75,000 From Senate

Justin Elliott | December 15, 2009, 5:59PM

Outside the former office of Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Former Ted Kennedy office manager Ngozi Pole has been charged with stealing $75,000 by submitting false salary paperwork to the Senate Disbursing Office, the Justice Department announced this afternoon.

Between 2003 and 2007, Pole, who is being charged with theft of government property and five wire fraud counts, allegedly received bonus and salary payments that had not been authorized by Kennedy or his chief of staff.

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