Lang
11/20/25
A former Iowa City hotel manager accused of diverting funds meant for the business to her personal accounts has been given a suspended sentence.
60-year-old Monica Adair of Solon entered a guilty plea earlier this month. Online records now show Judge Deborah Minot sentenced her to a two-year suspended prison sentence on a 3rd Degree Theft charge. She was also fined $855.
Iowa City Police say Adair was the manager of the Hampton Inn on Sturgis Corner Drive until earlier this year. The hotel owner, Hawkeye Hotels, had an arrangement with a local swim instruction school to rent the hotel’s pool.
Adair allegedly went around the agreement by directing the swim school to write rental payment checks directly to her. Between June 2023 and February 2024, Adair reportedly deposited four checks totaling $3,600 into her personal accounts. She was later charged with 2nd Degree Theft and could have spent up to five years behind bars.
A 2005 Daily Iowan article indicates Adair was once sued by Systems Unlimited for allegedly writing checks from the organization’s accounts and depositing them into her own accounts. There is no follow-up to the DI online article indicating the result of the lawsuit, and the case no longer appears on Iowa Courts Online.