The former chief financial officer (CFO) of a Granite Falls company was sentenced to more than six years in prison for embezzling millions of dollars from Fagen Inc. Between 2006 and 2015, 38-year-old Kirsten Tjosaas embezzled 5.7 million dollars, spending it on multiple houses, cars, and RV’s. It’s believed she deposited the money into a Granite Falls bank account she opened, under a Nebraska company she controlled. Tjosaas was also ordered to pay five-point-seven million dollars in restitution to Fagen Inc, an industrial contractor known for building ethanol plants all across the country.