#embezzlement scheme

Oklahoma News: TULSA, Kristiana P. Collins, Former Office Manager Sentenced for Embezzlement Scheme

TULSA, Okla. –A former Tulsa resident has been sentenced today in U.S. District Court for committing wire fraud and for signing a false tax return.

U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan ordered Kristiana P. Collins, 44, to federal prison for 21 months to be followed by 3 years of supervised release.

“White collar crime undermines the rule of law and harms business. My office ensures there is an…

West Virginia News: BLUEFIELD, Former Office Manager, Roseanna Coomes Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Scheme and Related Tax Felony

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuartannounced that Roseanna Coomes, 67, of Bluefield, West Virginia, pled guilty to executing a decade-long wire fraud scheme where she embezzled more than $969,000 from her employer, Cole Truck Parts. She also pled guilty to a related tax offense. As part of the plea, Coomes agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $969,316.68 to Cole Truck…

MIAMI | Ex-Venezuela official pleads guilty in boost to graft probe

MIAMI— The former finance chief of Venezuela’s state oil company pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in an alleged $1.2 billion embezzlement scheme, a major breakthrough for U.S. prosecutors targeting corruption by people close to President Nicolas Maduro, including his stepsons.

Appearing in a Miami federal court, Abraham Ortega promised to fully cooperate with prosecutors, making him the…

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El Salvador Arrests Former First Lady in $351 Million Embezzlement Scheme

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes and his immediate family alongside 30 former associates are facing charges for a massive corruption scheme. Funes was accused of stealing over $292 million from the country’s mortgage bank, with prosecutors saying the former leader carted away millions of the money in garbage bags. Now Funes’ ex-wife has been added to the growing list of people implicated in the Funes corruption scandal.

Funes was President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014 and has been living in exile in Nicaragua since 2016. He was the leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a party that lost power following the 1980-1992 civil war and only came back to the forefront of El Salvador’s politics with Funes’ rise to power, according to Reuters.

Funes Entire Family with 30 Former Associates and Private Secretary under Probe

Authorities ordered Funes’ arrest two weeks ago, alongside his two accused sons and former associates for their roles in the scandal, Business Anti-Corruption reports. Last Tuesday, the authorities also arrested Funes’ ex-wife, former First Lady Vanda Pignato for her alleged role in a $351 million embezzlement scheme orchestrated by Funes; his former secretary and long-time partner, Ada Guzman Siguenza, is also facing an arrest order.

Prosecutors allege that Funes embezzled public funds for trips, renovating and remodeling his houses, and settling hospital bills. Funes’ former secretary, Ada Guzman Siguenza, was said to have undergone plastic surgery in Beverly Hills using public funds released to her by Funes.

Funes Denies All Allegations, Saying Current Government Is Only Out To Witch-Hunt Him

Funes, who was president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014, has publicly denied all allegations of financial misappropriations leveled against him. He tweeted that distractors are only following a Hollywood movie script and conducting a witch-hunt of him. He went further to state that the current administration is out to victimize him and drag his reputation in the mud.

O sea que ahora los investigadores "profesionales" y acusadores de la FGR construyen sus casos siguiendo el guión de las películas de Hollywood. ¿Cuántas películas habrá tenido que ver Douglas Meléndez y Jorge Cortez para "montar" el caso "Operación Saqueo Público"? pic.twitter.com/ElnS510MCK

— Mauricio Funes (@FunesCartagena) June 12, 2018

Lakewood Woman Who Embezzled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From Pepsi Cola Credit Union Sentenced to Prison

From the FBI, edited by Brian Hews

A Lakewood woman who pleaded guilty to a protracted embezzlement scheme that resulted in the failure of a credit union was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison.

Wendy Wall, 50, was sentenced by United States District Judge James V. Selna, in Santa Ana, California. In addition to the prison term, Judge Selna ordered a four year term of supervised…

Darran Kelley, the fire chief for the Kinloch Fire Protection District, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for his unauthorized use of more than $140,000 of district funds and for making false statements about his receipt of Social Security disability payments that resulted in over-payments to him of approximately $120,000.

Kelley, 47, Ferguson, Missouri, pleaded guilty in July to three felony counts of wire fraud, one felony count of federal program theft, and one felony count of making false statements. He was sentenced by United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry, who further ordered him to pay $259,738 restitution.

The Kinloch Fire Protection District maintained a district banking account for the receipt and disbursement of district funds. Distributions were made via tax revenues from St. Louis County, Missouri and from the city of Kinloch.

Kelley schemed to make unauthorized cash withdrawals from the district's bank account for his own personal use. Records show he used the funds to purchase various personal items and for gambling at several casinos in the St. Louis area. Kelley also made unauthorized transfers of funds from the district's bank account to pay for charges on his own personal Mastercard credit card. Further, Kelley stole and embezzled a portion of the funds received by the district in June 2010 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which awarded the district a grant to cover 95 percent of the $250,000 total cost of a fire engine. Kelley even stole and embezzled funds that were donated to the district by concerned citizens who made the donations to assist the district in paying for its operations.

While Kelley engaged in the theft and embezzlement of district funds, many of the district's bills went unpaid and some of the necessary services were reduced or cut off due to non-payment.