Millbrook Band Got Scammed Outta Mad Bread 💸😭

The Tea is Piping Hot ☕

Okay, so listen up, cuz this is wild. Dawn Marie Ellis-Abbott, who used to work as a financial clerk for the Millbrook First Nation band, just admitted she scammed them outta BANK. Like, over $4.3 million, no cap! This wasn't some small-time hustle either; she was doing this for four years, from 2016 to 2019. Straight up bold.

How'd she do it, you ask? Girl was out here swiping the corporate credit card like it was free money, racking up over $2.9 million in personal charges. We talking home improvement, vacays, the whole shebang. But wait, there's more! She was also forging signatures on checks – like, 218 checks from Millbrook Fisheries totaling over a million dollars, and another 66 checks from the economic development corp for over $260K. And don't even get me started on the e-transfers – another $120K+ gonezo! She even used band money to pay for her salon's parking lot. Like, seriously?!

Turns out, she was in charge of accounting and printing checks for two of the band's businesses. Talk about a major L for trust, right? She was pulling in almost 60K a year but still felt the need to scheme. Now, she's pleaded guilty to fraud, and her sentencing is coming up in October. The band already filed a civil suit and got a partial win for over $4 million, but getting that bread back is gonna be a mission. This whole situation is just... yikes.