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Posted: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012
By The Associated Press
INDIANA, Pa. --
State police are meeting with the FBI and Internal Revenue Service to determine whether federal prosecutors will take over the case of a man charged with embezzling nearly $1 million from a gas drilling firm in Indiana County.
Online court records don't list an attorney for 51-year-old Larry Winckler, of Indiana, who's been in the Indiana County Jail since Monday on charges he stole the money from Falcon Drilling in Rayne Township.
Police said the company's controller told police that Winkler ordered her to write him a check in 2005 when he "desperately needed money" and that he's since siphoned up to $5 million from the firm.
Trooper John Matchik said federal authorities may take over the investigation because of its scope.
Winckler is charged with stealing $955,000 found missing so far.
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