A former St. Albert woman jailed for fraud earlier this year is facing new charges.
Tamara Bernier made a first appearance last Thursday in Morinville on charges of theft, fraud, uttering forged documents and possession of credit card data.
Bernier is also known as Tamara Lynne Valk, who pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud last year involving the Liberton Terrace Housing Cooperative.
The new charges all relate to crimes committed against Pleasant Homes Limited, a Morinville firm, between Oct. 16 last year and Dec. 18.
An exact amount of the theft is not available, but it is estimated between $2,000 and $5,000.
The charges also allege Bernier improperly used a fraudulent credit card and wrote several unauthorized cheques while working at the company.
Bernier is alleged to have been working at Pleasant Homes at the time of the theft.
Morinville RCMP began investigating Valk after they received a complaint from the owner of the company in late December.
The charges were laid on April 14.
Bernier is serving her sentence on the St. Albert charges at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre and made her Morinville court appearance via closed circuit TV. She asked the charges be put over for two weeks while she attempts to get a lawyer.
The St. Albert case involved a fraud of $37,572.89 from the housing co-op that occurred in 2008 while she acted as its treasurer.
While she initially entered her plea in November last year, she wasn’t sentenced until January, when she was given a 15-month jail term.
She wrote more than 20 cheques to herself on the co-op’s accounts.
