A federal court has decided that a woman sentenced to prison for embezzlement received far too harsh a sentence. The judge decided that the original sentence exceeded sentencing guidelines. As a result, the original term of six years and ten months in prison has been reduced to five years of probation and restitution in the… Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Atlanta hedge fund managers with defrauding investors by allegedly hiding losses and stealing funds for their own personal use. However, an attorney for the defendants adamantly deny the fraud and embezzlement accusations. The defendants are accused of placing the stock of a now-obsolete company into a “side… Read More

Justice Department lawyers accused Army Lt. Col. Robert Morris of conspiring to steal military supplies, even after a nearly two-year Army probe had cleared him. Another U.S. attorney’s office had declined to prosecute. Prosecutors went ahead with the charges anyway. The jury needed only 45 minutes to find Morris not guilty. By then, though, his… Read More

A Macon woman pleaded guilty to embezzling $624,608 and falsifying bank credit union records in U.S. District Court on Monday. The woman’s actions occurred from 2001 to 2007 at a Macon credit union. The former head bank teller took the money from the credit union’s vault and teller drawers. The Georgia woman faces up to… Read More

The chief administrative officer of Seed International was indicted today by a grand jury for suspicion of embezzlement of approximately $700,000. Seed International is a non-profit Christian Missionary group funded by a number of Korean churches around the country. Other officers of Seed International confronted the officer after they noticed that money seemed to be… Read More

The former executive director of the Medical Association of Atlanta, Sharon Rice, pled guilty to wire fraud on Thursday. She had embezzled almost $300,000 from the Association. Atlanta embezzlement attorneys note that the maximum penalty for wire fraud is twenty years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The manner in which Rice was able to… Read More

The economy is terrible (had you heard about that?). And one consequence is that more people are either tempted by the immediate financial appeal of embezzlement, or they are pursued by desperate employers anxious to accuse employees of embezzlement to cover a business’s failure. Anyone facing an accusation of embezzlement should consider finding an experienced… Read More

Kimberly Denise Brown, former bookkeeper for Atrium Foliage, was recently charged with eight counts of forgery and fraud – allegedly using forged checks, company credit cards and other methods to steal nearly $100,000. According to Robert and Kathy Lang Albright, owners of Atrium Foliage, the dollar amount Brown embezzled is actually much closer to $850,000. The… Read More