Tennessee Woman Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $135K

From The Tennessean on 12/18/2014:

A Lebanon woman has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to an agent with the U.S. Secret Service in an embezzlement scheme.

Bianca Thompson, 42, is facing up to 25 years in prison after admitting to a scheme to embezzle more than $135,000 from her employer and a client, and lying to the U.S. Secret Service about her actions, according to a Department of Justice news release.

Thompson said while working at Performance Food Group Customized Distribution in Lebanon, she falsely told a client that PFG had made a mistaken payment of more than $135,000 and instructed the client to wire that amount to Thompson’s personal bank account. Thompson converted the funds for personal use, including reducing her personal debts, according to the release.

Thompson also admitted that she concealed from PFG that she had instructed a second client to wire funds to her personal account and that she then used those funds personally.

When confronted about her conduct by the U.S. Secret Service, she lied to agents and said she transferred the funds received from one PFG client to another and said she had not spent any of the funds, according to the release.

She is scheduled for sentencing on March 15.
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Here is a more complete story: http://www.lebanondemocrat.com/article/crime/542881  Bianca Annamarie Thompson allegedly also stole $35,000 from a local youth soccer league.