A Kunkletown man turned himself in to police Monday on charges he stole $675,044.23 from his employer.

Megaphase LLC, turned over evidence to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office in December, which showed that a former employee, Stephen Golas, 34, had stolen a large quantity of money from them during the years that he worked there.

An investigation revealed Golas was stealing money from Megaphase from January 2015 to December 2020 by charging their company credit cards to a “Square” account that he set up to imitate one of their raw material suppliers.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, a Megaphase employee noticed on Dec. 10, 2020, that there were a large number of purchases of small piece parts from a supplier, Microwave Components LLC, the company doesn’t make purchases from very often. A supervisor checked the stock room and did not find any of the parts on the purchase orders.

“Mr. Golas forged documents to make the transactions with the Square account look legitimate,” according to a press release from the Monroe County District Attorney’s office. Square is an application, used by many small businesses, to digitally process payments for credit and debit cards.

Megaphase found 60 transactions with Microwave Components on their bank statements for 2020 even though Microwave found only one in their records.

“When questioned about the allegations by Det. Thomas McMahon, Golas confessed to stealing from Megaphase and covering it up by creating false documents,” according to the press release.

According to the affidavit, Golas sent a text message to the chief executive officer of Megaphase admitting to becoming “too greedy” and asking to repay the company by providing 40% of whatever salary he received from a future employer.

Charges against Golas include theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, receiving stolen property, forgery-unauthorized act in writing, forged writing, access device fraud, criminal use of a communication facility and tampering with records or identification.

Golas was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Colleen Mancuso and released on $100,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing will be set at a later date.