Taletha Coles, former Fairfield Township trustee, back in court, hits reset on restitution plan
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FORMER TRUSTEE TALETHA COLES HITS RESET ON RESTITUTION PLAN
Called out last week by prosecutors who said she was just $20 into more than $42,000 due in restitution for Fairfield Township funds she spent illegally, former township trustee Taletha Coles told a judge Friday that she’d start paying weekly to meet a sentence handed down in January.
Coles appeared briefly in Tippecanoe Superior Court 1, telling Judge Randy Williams that she hadn’t kept up with paying back the public funds because she’d been hospitalized after a tree-trimming accident that left her out of work while she had surgery.
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