The property manager at Harriet Tubman Terrace Apartments in Poughkeepsie treated the low-income housing complex as his own personal piggy bank, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.

Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Christina Scaringi announced 53-year-old Carl Immich of Rhinebeck was charged with one count of embezzlement and one count of theft.

Immich, who served as the management agent and property manager for Tubman Terrace since 2009, allegedly obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars of the complex's money for his own personal use.

Immich would routinely charge dinners, hotel bills, airfare and tanks of gas to Tubman Terrace credit cards, according to the criminal complaint.

Authorities said Immich also cut checks from the Tubman Terrace bank account to horse stables, his family's dentist and to pay his phone bills. In addition, the criminal complaint alleges Immich used the housing complex's checkbook to pay himself over $110,000 dollars -- either made out to "Carl Immich" or to cash -- and his daughter $12,134.

Immich allegedly used the Tubman Terrace payroll to pay himself $43,000 in addition to his $85,000 salary -- money for 26 weeks of vacation he claimed he was entitled to. The criminal complaint charges Immich's daughter was paid a total salary of $30,000 over three years but didn't work at the Tubman Terrace at that time.

If convicted, Immich faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on each charge.

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