Guilty pleas in recent employee theft cases in Minnesota's U.S. District Court
• Dell Martin Leclair, assistant manager of sales at the Excelsior branch of TCF National Bank, theft and embezzlement by a bank employee, $148,881.18.
• Wanda Jane Schafer, employee and agent with Gillford Mutual Fire Insurance Co., insurance fraud, $259,000.
• Michael J. Rome, finance director for a division of Archway Marketing Services, mail fraud, $232,784.49.
• Lisa Ann Holzinger, operations officer at Northeast Bank. theft and embezzlement by a bank employee, $174,216.52
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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