Gary Keith Atchley was indicted Monday on five counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the citizens of Olympian Village.
Atchley, 53, of Jefferson County, was an alderman for Olympian Village from March 2013 to December 2016 and used the city's account to pay personal expenses, including making checks to cash and writing checks directly to himself, the indictment alleges.
According to a statement from United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, about $58,000 worth of personal merchandise was bought using pre-authorized debit transactions and the $127,000 of checks Atchley wrote to himself were not authorized by the Olympian Village government.
