Kansas Woman Pleads Guilty To Embezzling More Than $500K From Trucking Concern

From the Great Bend Tribune on 11/25/2014:

A La Crosse woman pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $500,000 from the company where she worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Crystal Lynn Jones, 34, La Crosse, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen money. In her plea, she admitted the crime occurred from 2008 to 2013 while she was officer manager for Teel’s Trucks at 1200 Vine Street in Hays. She wrote unauthorized checks from Teel’s company accounts at Commerce Bank and the Bank of Hays for her personal benefit. She also conducted transfers on the Automated Clearing House electronic network from Teel’s accounts for her own personal benefit. She hid the thefts by altering entries on the company’s accounting software and by forging checks.

Sentencing is set for March 2, 2015. She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. Grissom commended the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney Rich Hathaway for their work on the case.

Former Bookkeeper Of Washington, DC Landscaping Company Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $1.3 Million

Christopher F. Cunningham, 44, most recently of Spain where he had fled to avoid prosecution, has plead guilty to charges he embezzled some $1.3 million from a small unnamed landscaping company based in Washington, DC where he had been employed as bookkeeper.  According to authorities, over a five year period, Cunningham redirected what would have been legitimate vendor payments to himself or to his own creditors.  He also redirected client payments for his own benefit.  Cunningham pleaded guilty to one federal felony count of interstate transportation of money taken by fraud.  Cunningham faces up to 46 months in prison.

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Hat tip: FraudTalk reader Joe.

Update (2/8/12): Cunningham has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $961,922 in restitution.  Federal authorities had previously seized $338,378 in assets from Cunningham.

North Carolina Man Accused of Embezzling $635K from Hospital

Joel Kimble, 45, of Arden, North Carolina, has been charged with embezzling some $635,000 from the Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, where he had been employed as an IT manager. According to authorities, over a period of about 3 1/2 years, between March 28, 2005 and September 30, 2008, Kimble ordered computer equipment under fraudulent warranty claims on behalf of the hospital and then resold it for his personal enrichment. He has been indicted on one count of embezzlement or theft, five counts of wire fraud and four counts of interstate transportation of stolen property. Cisco Systems, which provided the warranty parts fraudulently ordered by Kimble, was allegedly defrauded in the amount of at least $300,000.

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Update (5/17/12): Kimble was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $264,000 in restitution.