Former Goodwill executive gets 70 months for $1 million embezzlement

Former Goodwill executive gets 70 months for $1 million embezzlement

ST. LOUIS • A former local MERS / Goodwill executive was sentenced Wednesday to 70 months in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the group.

From 2007 through June 2010, Ronald Partee, 45, of St. Louis, used fake bills, invoices, and letters to trick MERS/Missouri Goodwill Industries Inc. employees into send checks to his fake businesses. He also used fake invoices with his bank account number and the real names of businesses to steal more money.

Partee convinced Goodwill to reimburse him for tuition that he never paid to two law schools he never attended. He also tricked Goodwill retirees into sending him checks that were supposed to go to insurance premiums.

When employees became suspicious, Partee changed his methods to hide his theft.

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