{"id":164967,"date":"2025-11-28T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164967\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:20:12","slug":"chelsea-fc-employee-admits-200000-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164967\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea FC employee admits \u00a3200,000 fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Chelsea employee has pleaded guilty to defrauding the football club out of more than \u00a3200,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Claire Walsh, who worked as an assistant treasury manager at the Premier League side, obtained \u00a3208,520 for herself between 8 June 2019 and 23 October 2023, Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 39-year-old, who admitted a charge of fraud by abuse of position, was told by Magistrate Kieran O&#8217;Donnell: &#8220;You&#8217;ve pleaded guilty to the offence and it exceeds our powers in terms of sentencing. You&#8217;ll need to be sent to a crown court for sentencing, where they have the appropriate powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Walsh, of Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on a date yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chelsea employee has pleaded guilty to defrauding the football club out of more than \u00a3200,000. Claire Walsh,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-164967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}