The former city clerk and treasurer of a small town in Lewis County was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in city funds that she’d embezzled over the course of nine years.

Tamara Clevenger, the former Morton city clerk-treasurer, embezzled $937,584 from taxpayers from 2013 to 2021, according to charging documents.

Federal prosecutors sought a 36-month prison sentence followed by three years of probation. A federal judge in Tacoma declined to order any prison time last week.

“Ms. Clevenger is truly sorry for her actions here,” Clevenger’s public defender wrote in a court document. “She is ashamed, remorseful, and horrified that she ever made the terrible decision to take money from the City of Morton — a place and people about which she cares deepl

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