An office manager who fiddled almost $250,000 while working at Mt Eden Prison has been warned he may end up inside himself.
Dennis Wayne Kake created 12 fake identities and companies as he put dozens of bogus charges directly into the Department of Corrections accounts computer over more than three years.
Yesterday, in the Auckland District Court, he admitted 117 charges of document fraud totalling $248,402.12.
Judge Avinash Deobhakta gave him bail until his sentencing next month, but warned the 41-year-old not to take it as an indication of the punishment he might get.
Kake was responsible for the prison's information technology and computers after he was employed as administration manager in 1994.
He started making fictitious entries in the Department of Corrections' computer accounting package from August 1996, with the cash being credited to his personal bank account.
Kake, of Mt Albert, eventually established 12 fake identities - with the final three all variations of his own first names - before he was caught in January this year.
When confronted by police, he said he had used the money to "pay his mortgage, a car loan and living well."
Judge Deobhakta said: "I will continue your bail, but on the clear understanding that it should not be taken as an indication or promise of anything at all."
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