Monique Bowling Boyd leaves federal court in Hammond after her arraignment Wednesday morning
Scott King will defend Monique Bowling Boyd on computer theft charges
Contributed By:The 411 News
Former city hall employee arraigned in federal court
Monique Bowling, the former Gary City Hall employee charged in the theft of computer equipment valued at $1.4 million was arraigned Wednesday morning in Hammond’s federal court.
Attorney and former Gary mayor Scott King appeared with Bowling before Judge John E. Martin and entered a not guilty plea.
An indictment in late October against Bowling listed charges of theft from a local government and an unrelated charge of identity theft of a deceased person.
Judge Martin set a jury trial date of December 19 in the court of Judge Phillip Simon.
Bowling worked as a network administrator in city hall’s IT Department. As an administrator, she ordered equipment from vendors for Gary’s departments and agencies.
According to the indictment, Bowling allegedly stole and obtained by fraud more than one thousand Apple iPads and other computer equipment under the care, custody and control of the City of Gary.
The indictment also alleges that Bowling used a deceased person’s state ID card with at least one other person and participated in a scheme to obtain pension checks of a deceased individual.
In January 2016, Indiana Atty. General Greg Zoeller filed a civil case against Bowling for misappropriation of Gary’s computer equipment. That case ended in a default judgment against Bowling for non-appearance and resulting triple damages.
The counts for identity theft and mail fraud are connected to a person identified in the indictment only as JHT, who lived in Bowling’s home until his death on September 2, 2010.
According to the indictment, beginning in October 2010 and continuing through May 2015, Bowling and at least one other person “obtained JHT’s pension check each month and used JHT’s Indiana identification card to cash checks” and “open a bank account in JHT’s name.”
Bowling was released on a $20,000 bond after her arrest on October 24.
Story Posted:11/09/2016
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