Pittsburgh Insurance Agency Employee Steals $432K

The former bookkeeper for a Pittsburgh insurance agency has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for stealing more than $432,000 from the business.

Federal prosecutors say 45-year-old Debrah Wenig, of Pittsburgh, was one of two people needed to sign checks for the Wallace M. Reid insurance agency.

Authorities say Wenig signed checks to herself and her creditors, then forged the names of supervisors on them. Wenig then covered up the thefts by making false bookkeeping entries and by destroying many of the canceled checks that were returned from banks.

Authorities say she stole the money from November 1997 until being discovered in September 2008.

Wenig faces up to 20 years in prison when she’s sentenced March 18.

Latest Comments

• May 7, 2010 at 2:23 am

  cwenig31 says:

  Well guys this is my mom and I am here to tell you that she got 12 months and a day which will end up being on 10 months! Unfortuantely though you guys are right but certain ... read more
• November 30, 2009 at 1:39 am

  Don't Kill Me 'Cuz I'm Right says:

  "If she were a high powered exec, she'd get fined 10k and put on probation." And if she were a politician, stole tens of millions in tax money, and orchestrated the deaths of ... read more
• November 30, 2009 at 11:42 am

  Ron says:

  If she were a high powered exec, she'd get fined 10k and put on probation.