A Pennsylvania credit union employee who set a fire in order to file an insurance claim for money she had earlier embezzled has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced that Patty Lynn Mavrakis, …
The former town clerk of a small rural community in northeast Missouri was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay back $315,000 to the town. Tracey Ray, 48, pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud …
A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to repay nearly $370,000 after being found guilty of stealing from his employer. Ernest Everette Howard, 49, of Tulsa, must $368,329.61 in restitution, according to the U.S. …
Authorities say a mother and son who worked for a Georgia alcohol distributor embezzled more than $3 million from their employer over a decade. Sheriff’s investigators in Bibb County, Georgia, arrested 72-year-old Eva Rebecca Wells and her son, 44-year-old Billy …
A Louisiana hospital foundation’s former fundraising chief was sentenced to 33 months for stealing more than $550,000 in donations. News outlets report 49-year-old John Paul Funes was sentenced after his original sentencing hearing was pushed back because of scheduling conflicts. …
An Edmond, Oklahoma, man has admitted to embezzling more than $755,000 from his employer and to tax fraud. Court documents show 74-year-old Odis Aubrey King admitted in a plea agreement that he wrote more than 200 company checks to himself …
An accountant accused of embezzling from the Nebraska Rural Electric Association has been sent to prison. Federal prosecutors say 42-year-old Sarah Batenhorst, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 10 months and ordered to pay restitution of nearly $344,000. She’d pleaded guilty …
