Michigan Man To Be Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Embezzling $800+K From Steel Company

From the Huron Daily Tribune on 3/17/2015:

Monday’s sentencing for a 34-year-old Akron area man who has pleaded guilty to embezzling from a Pigeon factory has been adjourned until next week.

It’s alleged Chad Letson embezzled more than $800,000 over roughly three years from Blue Diamond Steel in Pigeon, and he previously plead guilty to one count of embezzlement greater than $100,000, and one count of using a computer to commit a crime.

 

According to court officials, the Huron County Circuit Court criminal docket for Monday had to be rescheduled, as Judge Gerald M. Prill had a family funeral to attend.

 

Letson admitted he committed embezzlement during a February hearing in circuit court. He told Prill that when he was in a supervisory position at Blue Diamond, he used his computer to sell the company’s property via eBay and PayPal on multiple occasions between January 2011 and November 2014.

 

The crime of embezzlement is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and/or a $50,000 fine, or three times the amount embezzled, whichever is greater. The crime of using a computer to commit a crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

 

Letson’s sentencing was adjourned until 1:30 p.m. March 23 in circuit court.

Michigan Woman Accused Of Embezzling As Much As $100K From Nursing Home

From The Daily Press on 6/6/13:

MANISTIQUE - A former nursing home director, accused of embezzling funds from an assisted living facility in Manistique, was bound over from Schoolcraft County District Court to circuit court on Wednesday.

Jana Marie Chaperon, 39, of Rapid River, allegedly converted funds for her own use while director at the Woodland Meadows Assisted Living Facility.

She was arrested last month and charged with one count of embezzlement $50,000 to $100,000, a 15-year felony, and one count of using a computer to commit a crime, a 10-year felony.

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According to an investigation by the Michigan State Police Detachment in Manistique, Chaperon allegedly embezzled monies from the nursing home for a long period of time until she resigned in the summer of 2012.

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Pair Of California Bookkeeper Conspirators Charged With Embezzling $2.6 Million

Maria Lourdes B. Dionisio, 46, of Pacifica, California, and Hannah Yau, 56, of Fremont, California, have been charged in a scheme to embezzle more than $2.6 million from software programming company, Autonomy Inc., for whom they had been employed as a payroll clerk and a financial analyst, respectively. According to prosecutors, Dionisio (upper left mug shot) and Yau (upper right) conspired to issue themselves extra paychecks over a four year period. The scheme reportedly unravelled after Dionisio reported an income of about $450,000 instead of $63,000, her true salary, when she filed for unemployment benefits last May after she was let go for unrelated reasons. The pair, who have both plead not guilty, face up to six years in prison each if convicted.

Read the story here and here.

Read the San Francisco District Attorney's announcement here.