Embezzler Sentenced to Prison

A Sheridan woman was sentenced to prison in Fourth Judicial District Court Tuesday for embezzling almost half-a-million dollars from her former employer. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.

District Court Judge Darci Phillips accepted the terms of the plea agreement reached with the State, and sentenced 48-year-year-old Alisha Buszkiewic to 6 to 10 years in prison for felony forgery and 4 to 6 years for each of three theft charges and and additional forgery charge. The 4 to 6 year prison sentences were suspended in favor of four years of supervised probation that will run consecutively to the 6 to 10 year prison sentence, meaning she will be on 16 of supervised probation once she is released from prison.

Buszkiewic was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $474,853. $50,000 of which has already been paid to the Clerk of District Court. Buszkiewic must also pay $925 in court costs and assessments. She will receive credit for any time that she’s served of presentence confinement. According to court documents, Between 2015 and 2025, Buszkiewic , while she was Secretary for Western Transport in Sheridan, made unauthorized transfers of money belonging to Western Transport with the intent to deprive the owners of that money.  In total, Buszkiewic made 281 unauthorized transfers, totalling $474,853.