Former Love County treasurer pleads guilty to embezzlement
MARIETTA — Former Love County Treasurer Lorry Hull has been ordered to pay $16,009 in restitution for embezzling taxpayer funds in 2020.
The state's multicounty grand jury in August returned an indictment charging Hull with seven felony counts of embezzlement by county treasurer.
Hull, 46, of Ardmore, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Love County District Court. District Judge Wallace Coppedge decided her punishment, putting her on probation for five years.
The judge also ordered her to pay the restitution, plus $315 to a victim compensation fund and $2,204 in court costs.
Her probation is the type known as a suspended sentence. That means she will not go to prison but will have a felony conviction on her record.
Grand jurors alleged she converted public funds to her own use in July and August of 2020. Hull was treasurer of the county in southern Oklahoma from February 2013 to September 2020.
Prosecutors told the grand jury judge in August that she is suspected of using the funds for gambling.
"This crime was particularly onerous because the embezzlement was at the hands of an elected official entrusted with the safekeeping of taxpayer dollars," said Attorney General Gentner Drummond, whose assistants advise the grand jury.
She was accused of embezzling a total of $21,499 but had returned $5,489 to the bank in August 2020 after coming under suspicion. She was allowed to pay off the restitution at a rate of $100 a month.
Hull originally was indicted in September 2020. A month later, prosecutors dropped the two counts of embezzlement by county treasurer to further investigate "any and all allegations" against her.
