Members of the South Lake Tahoe City Council are tied to ongoing investigations. The mayor admitted to embezzling from her church, and the mayor pro tem is facing unrelated misdemeanor charges.

Mayor Tammy Wallace's stunning admission came in a letter to the media, where she also said she attempted suicide over it just two days after she spoke about suicide prevention in council chambers on September 9.

In a letter Wallace sent to CBS13, she said, "This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I am admitting that I took funds from the Presbyterian Church over an extended period. Because of this, on September 11, 2025, my birthday, I tried to end my life."

The Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church fired Wallace from her job as their bookkeeper after they discovered the alleged embezzlem

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