Commonwealth v. Mahoney

The defendant, Martha Mahoney, was indicted for embezzlement by a city, town, or county officer, see G. L. c. 266, § 51, and for larceny over $250, see G. L. c. 266, § 30. The indictments were based on her alleged theft of approximately $44,000 out of parking fines and excise taxes that she received in her capacity as an employee of the office of the parking clerk of the city of Lowell. After a jury trial in the Superior Court, she was convicted of “simple embezzlement,” as a lesser included offense under G. L. c. 266, § 51; she was also convicted of the larceny charge. A judge thereafter…