Jefferson County Woman Pleads Guilty To $133,000 Theft At Fort Drum

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Nancy E. Campany, 69, of Carthage, New York, pled guilty today in federal court in Syracuse to the theft of more than $133,000 related to contracts she held with the Army & Air Force Exchange Service ("AAFES"), announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Craig W. Rupert, Special Agent in Charge, Defense Criminal Investigative Service ("DCIS"), Northeast Field Office, U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General.

Campany operated an alteration and dry cleaning business known as "Nancy’s Alteration" at Fort Drum, New York, between 2005 and 2011. Her contract with AAFES required payment to AAFES of approximately 23% of the gross sales and receipts generated by "Nancy’s Alteration." Over a nearly six-year period, Campany intentionally failed to record hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales by instructing her employees to process credit card transactions without ringing them through the cash register in order to conceal them from AAFES. Campany then created and submitted false and fraudulent reports to AAFES regarding her gross sales and gross receipts, thereby concealing what she owed under her contracts. In doing so, Campany defrauded AAFES out of $133,769.64 in fees. As part of her guilty plea, Campany agreed to make full restitution to AAFES.

Nancy E. Campany will be sentenced on June 17, 2016 in federal court in Syracuse by Chief District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby. She faces a maximum sentence of up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a judge based upon the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the United States Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.

This case was investigated by DCIS, AAFES Loss Prevention, and the AAFES Business Law Division, Office of the General Counsel, and it is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael F. Perry.