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Surf Rider Condo a Victim of Shark Attack?

By Thomas Francis, Fri., Jul. 17 2009 @ 3:40PM
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Categories: Broward, Crime
The alleged shark is named Pamela Lynn Csolkovits. A Broward Sheriff's Office statement says she admitted to stealing some $200,000 from her fellow residents of the Surf Rider Condominium Association on Ocean Boulevard in Pompano Beach. An audit allegedly found that the actual losses were more than twice that. From the BSO release:
A condo bookkeeper's fuzzy math has finally been cleared up, but the discrepancies that were found amount to huge losses and no day at the beach for condo owners at the Surf Rider Community.

The resort's trusted assistant manager and bookkeeper of 11 years, Pamela Csolkovits, 42, had been helping herself to the association's money for at least four years. On May 14, 2008, board members of the Surf Rider Condominium in Pompano Beach, a timeshare destination with over 2,000 individual homeowners, were alarmed by one of Csolkovits' transactions.

Without the knowledge of the board, she purchased an $85,000 certificate of deposit from a local bank. They questioned its authenticity and, upon some investigation, discovered the documentation she provided and the certificate of deposit were fraudulent. Board members confronted Csolkovits and she admitted to defrauding the Association of almost $200,000. She was immediately fired.

The board reported the crime to the Broward Sheriff's Office and hired a private accounting firm to conduct an audit. The two-month investigation revealed that since 2005, Csolkovits, who had signature authorization on the Association's account, had been transferring funds into her personal credit card accounts, making checks out to herself or to "cash," and faking invoices - a total loss of $469,797.70 to the condo association. On July 13, BSO Economic Crime Detective Mitch Gordon obtained a warrant for Csolkovits' arrest. She was taken into custody on Thursday, July 16, without incident. She's currently at the BSO Main Jail facing one charge of grand theft.

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joe villani says:

now go & investigate somerset @ lauderdale lakes condominium association inc Phase 2.a bunch of other crooks.

Posted On: Friday, Jul. 17 2009 @ 9:57PM
mitchell drimmer says:

Condominiums and homeowners association are businesses and need to be handled like businesses. What company do you know lets an assistant bookkeeper have signature rights to the checking accounts? Condo boards need to hire responsible and professional people to manage condominiums and then have the financial reports audited every year by a certified CPA firm. This would never have happened with proper controls.

Posted On: Saturday, Jul. 18 2009 @ 6:37PM
joe villani says:

my previous email should have said Somerset @ lauderdale lakes condominium association inc Phase 2.see the public records,from the IRS.

Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 22 2009 @ 1:05PM
tyler reynolds says:

i do not approve of everyone posting this woman online everywhere!!!!! the reason is that she is my mother!! everyone is seeing this in the newspaper saying thats your mom. and i dont appreciate people talking bad about her "the alleged shark" i mean im only 13 most 13 year olds dont have to go through what im going through or a variety of ages dont.

Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 29 2009 @ 3:18AM
Content Rewriter says:

Does anybody know where I can find more of this type of information? Very good post, but I'd like to learn more. Thanks anybody...

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 19 2010 @ 9:18PM
Chris says:

This is my friends wife, and if ppl don't have anything better 2 do buttalk about this woman you are all losers and can lick my balls

Posted On: Sunday, Apr. 18 2010 @ 12:11PM
Virgil Walde says:

I am grateful to you for sharing this post with us. I have been in search of this post and found the post at the right time. I appreciate for your hard work.

Posted On: Friday, Jun. 18 2010 @ 11:39AM

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