{"id":6382,"date":"2011-05-11T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2011-05-11T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:48:52","slug":"breaking-news-steck-clinic-accountant-arrested-accused-of-embezzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6382","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Steck Clinic accountant arrested, accused of embezzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; Chehalis police arrested the chief financial officer for Steck Medical Group yesterday for allegedly embezzling some $25,000 from the health clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Keith B. Mohoric, 51, of Centralia, had worked for the business a little more than a year and a half and was fired yesterday, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Steck Medical Group Chief Executive Officer Chris Bredeson said this morning they recently discovered discrepancies in their bank deposits. They contacted police on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bredeson said in a prepared statement: &#8220;While significant, the losses do not affect the clinics&#8217; services to patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives went to the clinic on Bishop Road in Chehalis yesterday morning to interview Mohoric and then booked him into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree theft and forgery, police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said.<\/p>\n<p>McNamara said essentially, not all the money that was supposed to be going to the bank actually was.<\/p>\n<p>McNamara said Mohoric did not say why he did it, &#8220;just that he needed it, he was having money issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steck Medical Group operates multiple clinics in Lewis County, including Steck Medical Center in Chehalis.<\/p>\n<p>Bredeson said Mohoric promised restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; Chehalis police arrested the chief financial officer for Steck Medical Group yesterday for allegedly embezzling some $25,000 from the health clinic. Keith B. Mohoric, 51, of Centralia, had worked for the business a little more than a year and a half and was fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}