DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Susan E. Shaw
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Former Hawaii beauty queen and convicted thief Susan
E. Shaw is scheduled to stand trial in state court in October for padding the tip line on the credit card charges of diners of a restaurant where she worked as a waitress.
Shaw, 43, was assigned Oct. 23 as her trial week after pleading not guilty Monday to the fraudulent use of a credit card and computer fraud. The prosecutor said Shaw increased the tip amount on 105 bills after the customers had entered a lower tip amount and signed the credit card authorizations between Jan. 16 and May 18.
This is not the first time Shaw has been accused of fraud involving credit cards. She was sentenced to
20 years in state prison in 2011 after pleading guilty to 140 counts of theft, identity theft, credit card theft, forgery, unauthorized possession of confidential personal information and using a computer to commit the crimes.
The charges were the result of Shaw stealing the personal information of dozens of people, using the information to apply for and receive credit cards, then using the cards to make more than $160,000 in purchases.
Shaw was on furlough for that case when she started working at Square Barrels in downtown Honolulu in January. She was released on parole May 17.
She was taken back into custody May 23 for failing to report to her parole officer that she had been suspended from her job following the discovery of the padded credit card charges. She was again released on parole July 20 after the Honolulu Paroling Authority conducted a hearing and found her not guilty of violating her release.
Shaw turned herself in Wednesday, one day after an Oahu grand jury indicted her on the tip-padding charges. Her bail on the two charges is $50,000. However, she is also being held again for violating her parole.