By Sheldon Spackman

Conditional Sentence Order

Man sentenced for defrauding Drayton Valley not-for-profit organization

Feb 15, 2022 | 2:59 PM

A Drayton Valley man accused of defrauding a local not-for-profit organization of more than $200,000 has been sentenced.

Eric Paul Butz, 36, was convicted of uttering a forged document and given a 22-month conditional sentence order in Leduc provincial court on Feb. 14, along with 24 months of probation.

Butz had originally been charged with fraud over $5000, forgery, and uttering forged documents.

Mounties began investigating allegations against Butz in September 2018 after the organization claimed they had been defrauded of a large sum of money by their treasurer over a four-year period.

At the time of the alleged fraud, police say Butz worked as a Certified Chartered Accountant in Drayton Valley. He was also elected to Drayton Valley town council in 2017, but served for only one year before resigning in October 2018.

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RCMP did not name the organization that filed the complaint, but online records show Butz served as treasurer for the Drayton Valley Rotary Club.