KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A northeast Kansas woman is going to federal prison
for embezzling more than $561,000 from the Missouri company where she worked
for 14 years.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 53-year-old Paula Cathey, of Leavenworth,
was sentenced Monday to three years and five months in prison. She was also
ordered to pay about $557,000 in restitution.
Cathey was the controller for Mega Industries Inc., a heavy-construction
company located in North Kansas City, Mo.
She pleaded guilty last October to 15 counts of bank fraud, admitting she
wrote unauthorized company checks to herself and forged the signatures of
company officers.
Prosecutors said Cathey used the stolen money mostly for gambling. She hid
the crimes partly by destroying most of the company's monthly bank statements.
From AP
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