Apple Valley Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing From Rosemount Athletic Association

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 62-year-old Apple Valley man accused of stealing more than $100,000 from the Rosemount Area Athletic Association, where he was employed, has pleaded guilty to charges in the case.

Robert Steven Reischauer had been charged with five counts of felony theft. He pleaded guilty to all five charges in the case, according to the Dakota County Attorney's Office.

According to the criminal complaint, RAAA conducted an audit while in between finance managers and found large sums of money missing. The RAAA believed the money had been taken by the former finance manager, Reischauer, as he was the only one with access to the RAAA's accounts.

For 27 years, Reischauer was the group's finance director. No one noticed anything usual until 2013. During an initial review of the account records, the RAAA found that Reischauer had issued a number of checks to himself that were never approved by the board from September 2011 through August 2013.

In his position, Reischauer was allowed to spend up to $500 without authorization, but all the checks found were greater than that amount.

According to the complaint, officials also found that Reischauer had created PayPal and Amazon accounts in his name and had used $11,400 of RAAA money to pay for the things he bought on those accounts.

The audit also found Reischauer issued himself extra pay checks totaling $11,500 over what he is normally paid.

After finishing the audit and reviewing Reischauer's personal computer and records, officials confirmed that he had been issuing extra pay checks to himself to help pay for the PayPal and Amazon accounts, among other things, and would then delete them from the account records he gave to the RAAA board.

The total amount was over $113,000.

Rieschauer will be sentenced Nov. 17.