Thursday, February 24, 2011

Update: Texas Bookkeeper Sentenced For Embezzling $659 From Local Energy Companies

Constance M. Bexley Iwanski, 56, of Corpus Christi, Texas was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution for embezzling some $659,000 from an unnamed group of petroleum companies for which she had served as bookkeeper. According to prosecutors, beginning in or about December 2002 until December 2008, Iwanski wrote at least 100 fraudulent and forged checks on company accounts to herself. She reportedly become the sole bookkeeper for the group of companies in 1994 after a restructuring. She had been working for the group since 1980. Iwanski pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud last November.

Read the story here and here.

Read the DOJ announcements here and here.

Read FraudTalk's original post on this story here.

1 comment:

Restored Blogger said...

I just don't understand these relative light sentences of 2 years when first time dime bag pot sellers are getting 10 year prison sentences of $32 bags.