Boise, ID (CBS2) — Today in Boise a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Catherine Skidmore, 55, from Meridian with 24 counts of money laundering and 25 counts of wire fraud.
Skidmore is alleged to have stolen $1,792,000 from her former employer Black Canyon Irrigation District (BCID) between 2014 and July 2022. Skidmore was a Secretary-Treasurer for BCID and allegedly handled their fee- collecting, bill payments, and investment accounts, and maintained the company QuickBooks database and ledgers. She also is alleged to have access to, and signature authority over the company bank accounts with the ability to write and deposit checks and transfer funds.
Also alleged in the indictment is that Skidmore opened a Local Government Investment Pool account on behalf of the BCID without informing the company and used the account for a series of transfers of company funds used by her for her personal use and benefit.
Skidmore is also alleged to have falsely represented account records to the BCID Board, her manager, and other employees by making false entries into the BCID internal accounting records and creating fake invoices to make it appear that funds were used to pay the company's expenses, but were instead used by her for personal use.
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