Georgia woman linked to Warren County’s $2.1M bank fraud case, won’t be prosecuted
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QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (WNYT) – The Warren County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday released its report on how $2.1 million in county funds was transferred to a fake account back in December 2025. No one will be prosecuted for this crime, investigators said, because it is outside of the county’s jurisdiction. Also, the county said much of that money is unlikely to be recovered. The investigation started on Dec. 23, 2025, when Sheriff Jim LaFarr got a call at about 5 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2025 from Board of Supervisors Chairman Kevin Geraghty reporting likely financial fraud. Investigators later found a person claiming to represent Peckham Road Corp. got Warren County to set up an automated clearing house payment account and send two automated clearing house (ACH) payments totaling about $3.3 million to a fraudulent account. Between Nov. 10, 2025 and Dec. 8, 2025, the sheriff’s Office said a male-sounding caller with a thick foreign accent called multiple county departments 16 times. The r