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June 23, 2009
GLASGOW WOMAN SENTENCED FOR WIRE FRAUD
– Embezzled $217,549 from her employer
BOWLING GREEN, KY -Michelle Simmons, age 34, of Glasgow, Kentucky, in Barren County, was sentenced in United States District Court in Bowling Green to one count of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., United States District Judge, sentenced Simmons to twelve months’ and one day of imprisonment to be followed by three years’ supervised release. He also ordered that she pay $217,549.00 in restitution. There is no parole in the federal judicial system.
Simmons admitted in her plea of guilty that between July 22, 2004 and January 14, 2008, she embezzled approximately $217,549 from her employer, Bealand Campbellsville, Inc., while serving as the office manager, the employee responsible for employee payroll and bill pay functions, by executing a scheme to defraud in which she caused checks, in addition to her bi-monthly salary, to be issued to herself. During the course of the scheme, she used and caused interstate wire communications, including an August 18, 2008, interstate electronic transfer of funds from the credit card account to the payables account at South Central Bank in Glasgow, Kentucky, that was conducted by S/One, a banking company in Norcross, Georgia.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Joshua Judd, and it was investigated by the United States Secret Service.
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