That's So Gay

From the Quad City Times:

Usually people get into trouble for not paying their court costs. A Clinton woman is charged for paying them — using a credit card number she allegedly stole from her past employer.

Courtney L. Gay, 26, was arrested Monday and charged with unauthorized use of a credit card, identity theft and violation of probation.

Gay worked at The Scotts Company in Morrison, Ill., since April 2007, reconciling business accounts, checking receipts for accounts payable and data entry. She had access to two company credit cards but did not have authorization to use them, according to court records.

Gay is accused of using the company credit card in August and November to pay $696 in court costs associated with three past criminal cases. Gay had pleaded guilty to second-degree theft in January 2007 and was sentenced to three years probation. She also had a deferred judgment on a forgery charge.

She allegedly made one of the payments Nov. 12, the day she lost her job due to company cutbacks, according to court records. Records also show she used the credit card Oct. 20 to pay McEleney AutoCenter $503.35 for auto repairs.

The company discovered the alleged use of the credit card after Gay had been fired, according to court records.

Gay was booked into the Clinton County Jail on $10,000 bond, but was transferred to the Carroll County Jail in Illinois due to lack of space in Clinton County.

What's that? $1200 total?

She gets a $10,000 bond and is sent to jail for stealing $1200 from her past employer?

It's too bad she wasn't like GED-sporting CIETC executive Ramona Cunningham, ripping off the taxpayers to the tune of $368,000 a year to run a job training agency when the unemployment rate was below 5%. At least Ramona was able to afford mouthpiece Bill Kutmus and "fake" a suicide attempt in order to get her trial delayed.

It's also too bad she didn't steal $220,000 from the Science Station in Cedar Rapids. Then she could have gotten a slap on the wrist from the judge and two years to figure out a repayment plan.

And finally, it's also too bad she wasn't from a rich, lawyer-connected Roman Catholic family like Saint Steven Sueppel of Iowa City was. Why, he got to steal $600,000 from his employer and walk out of court without having to pay a dime on his alleged so-called "personal bond"! And then he got to go home, kill his wife, and bash his four children's heads in with a baseball bat before turning himself Extra Crispy on I-80 which resulted in his canonization by the local pedophile enablers and the bend-over media.