Former ECISD booster club treasurer pleads no contest in fraud case, ordered to pay $201K in restitution

SAN ANTONIO – The erstwhile treasurer of an East Central Independent School District booster nine pleaded nary contention Tuesday successful an unrelated felony fraud lawsuit and tin debar situation if she pays backmost much than $201,000 successful restitution by aboriginal adjacent year, tribunal records obtained by the KSAT 12 Defenders show.

Ashlee Ring faces a maximum of 10 years successful prison, according to a transcript of her plea statement signed Tuesday successful 144th District Court.

If fractional of the restitution, $100,813.90, is paid backmost by her sentencing proceeding connected Jan. 18, prosecutors volition urge Ring beryllium fixed assemblage supervision but volition reason her exertion for deferred adjudication.

If the afloat magnitude of restitution, $201,627.80, is paid backmost successful clip for sentencing, prosecutors volition urge Ring beryllium fixed assemblage supervision and volition “remain silent” regarding her exertion for deferred adjudication. This means they volition not contention her application.

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As portion of the plea agreement, Ring was ordered to wage backmost a unfortunate successful her archetypal lawsuit much than $157,000.

In that case, Ring near down astir $200,000 successful recognition paper bills and had illegally utilized the cards for idiosyncratic use, including buying spot astatine 1 point, portion she worked for a San Antonio spot absorption group, a unfortunate antecedently told the Defenders.

Former East Central booster nine treasurer faces wealth laundering, felony theft charges

The unfortunate said Ring worked arsenic the company’s vice-president and manipulated funds betwixt the institution and aggregate apartments implicit a five-year period.

Ring was indicted by a Bexar County expansive assemblage successful October 2019 connected 1 number of misapplication of fiduciary spot betwixt $150,000 and $300,000 and 1 number of theft betwixt $150,000 and $300,000, tribunal records show.

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In her much caller case, Ring was accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars from ECISD’s Future Farmers of America booster club.

She was yet indicted earlier this twelvemonth connected 4 felony counts, ranging from charges of misapplication of fiduciary property, to theft and wealth laundering.

Charging paperwork states Ring carried retired that strategy betwixt September 2018 and March 2020.

Ring had been serving arsenic treasurer of the district’s FFA/agriculture booster club, contempt being nether indictment successful the unrelated felony fraud case, nationalist records confirm.

As portion of Tuesday’s plea agreement, Ring indispensable wage backmost the FFA/agriculture booster nine much than $44,000.

District officials confirmed the booster nine probe successful January and said, astatine the time, that the club’s affiliation with ECISD had been suspended portion the probe took place.

District officials person not said if the club’s affiliation with the territory has since been reinstated oregon if Ring has begun making restitution payments.

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