Milwaukee County DA sentences Oak Creek woman to 4-1/2 years in prison for embezzlement.

• Author: Duran, Ethan
• Position: Robin Nissen

Byline: Ethan Duran

By Ethan Duran

eduran@dailyreporter.com

The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) announced on Friday the Milwaukee County district attorney has sentenced Robin Nissen, 53, to 4-1/2 years in prison and three years of extended supervision after she embezzled more than $600,000 while working as a secretary for Milwaukee-based Advance Landscape Center and filing false state tax returns afterward. The woman was also ordered to pay more than $40,000 in restitution to the DOR.

Nissen printed checks in her name, recorded false entries for whom the checks were payable to in the business ledger and printed them off at her employer's location while she worked for the landscaping company between around 2015 and 2018, DOR officials said. She falsely wrote more than $644,000 worth of checks to herself and deposited them in a personal account before evading $14,000 in state tax income, according to the criminal complaint.

The woman was the part-time secretary for Advance Landscape Center for around eight years and was in charge of payroll and billing, according to the complaint. She was the only person outside of the owner who had access to the business ledger and had authority to print checks from it. From 2015 to 2018, Nissen created false payments to businesses on the computer business ledger and printed a check in her name in Milwaukee. Over the years she fraudulently wrote out more than $600,000 worth of checks to herself and deposited them into her own account, according to the complaint.

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