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Security First Accountant Charged with Siphoning $1.4M Through Fake Invoices

An accountant for Ormond Beach-based Security First Insurance Co. has been charged with stealing more than $1.4 million by creating false invoices and routing the funds to her personal accounts. Samantha Rae Link, 30, of Daytona Beach, was arrested Wednesday, …

Pastor to Go to Jail, Repay Church and Insurer for Stealing $130K to Cover Gambling

A New Hampshire executive pastor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing about $130,000 from his church to pay off gambling debts and make purchases. Gregory Neal, of Barrington, 45, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday and …

Investigators Seek More Victims of Alleged Fraud by Former California Insurance Agent

Formerly licensed insurance agent Gregory Magedman, 77, of Fullerton, California, appeared in court on one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement after allegedly failing to give an insurance payment to a carrier. Records indicate there may be additional victims …

Carolina Company CFO Ordered to Pay Restitution to Insurer in $2 Million Embezzlement

The former chief financial officer for a Carolina-based manufacturing supply company must spend more than three years in prison and repay $2 million he embezzled, which includes payments made by the firm’s insurance carrier. Samuel Allen Mouzon, 62, for 20 …

Mississippi State Sorority Treasurer Sentenced in $4M Embezzlement

A woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $3 million in restitution for embezzling money from a Mississippi State University sorority. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Betty Jane Cadle, …

Former Pharma Executive in New Jersey Charged With Embezzling Millions

A former executive and owner of a pharmaceutical company embezzled millions of dollars from his company to use for personal expenses, the U.S. attorney’s charged in a criminal complaint released Monday. John Klein allegedly took about $3.9 million from a …

New Jersey Executive Who Embezzled $48M Gets 75-Month Sentence

A former publication company executive was sentenced to more than six years in prison Monday in a $48 million embezzlement plot. A federal judge sentenced Nestor Charriez to 75 months and also ordered him to pay $43 million in restitution. …

Convicted Massachusetts Shoe Company Exec to Forfeit Home to Feds

A former executive at a Massachusetts shoe manufacturer convicted last month of embezzling $30 million from the company must also now surrender his $800,000 home, according to court records. A federal forfeiture notice shows the government will seize a Duxbury …

3 South Dakota Family Members Sentenced for Defrauding Farmers

Three members of a South Dakota family accused of bilking millions from farmers due to risky speculation in the grain business have been sentenced to time behind bars. Jared Steffensen and his wife, Tami Steffensen, pleaded guilty earlier to theft …

Ex-Shoe Company Exec in Massachusetts Gets Nearly Six Years for Embezzlement

A former executive at a nearly 140-year-old shoe manufacturer in Massachusetts has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzling $30 million from the company and spending it on luxury items and travel for himself and another person, …