Filling to be sentenced Wednesday, February 15
G. Lewis Filling Jr. is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, February 15, at 9:30 a.m. in Middlesex County Circuit Court on five felony convictions of embezzling $50,371 from the Central Middlesex Volunteer Rescue Squad of Urbanna while he was squad treasurer.
Filling has been in jail since November 16, 2011, when he entered an Alford Plea to all five charges. In an Alford Plea, the criminal defendant (Filling) does not admit to the crimes, but admits the prosecution could likely prove the charges against him.
The crimes occurred from 2005 through 2010 when Filling was the rescue squad treasurer. He also was the Urbanna Town Administrator during those years.
Filling had served in the Town of Urbanna government since 1990 and is a former mayor and town council member. He was the town administrator and town treasurer at the time he was indicted on March 28, 2011 and resigned both positions the next day.
On June 10, 2011, the Virginia State Police seized from the Town of Urbanna administrative office 12 “large banker’s boxes” and three paper bags containing accounting records, bank records, accounts receivable and accounts payable records, and personnel records dating back to the year 2000, according to a search warrant filed in Middlesex Circuit Court.
Most of the documents were returned in December, 2011. However, two bags of town records were retained by State Police investigator Jennifer Brown, who also brought the embezzlement charges against Filling.
