A previous accounting and human assets director at a kitchen area reworking corporation with a locale in Greenwich has pleaded responsible to federal wire fraud, right after she allegedly embezzled much more than $630,000 from the business.
Susana Rivera, 40, of Bronx, N.Y., pleaded guilty to one rely of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s place of work for the Southern District of New York reported in a news release.
The demand carries a most sentence of 20 yrs in prison beneath federal legislation, the business claimed.
Rivera was hired to work for the company, which also has locations in Mamaroneck and Bedford, N.Y. in Oct of 2019. Beginning in November, she “made hundreds of unauthorized expenses in a full amount exceeding $175,000 to the victim company’s credit history cards,” the release mentioned.
The income was allegedly utilized for Rivera’s own expenditures, together with jewellery, splendor and laser therapies, vacation, animals, cosmetic medical procedures clothing and cars— including a “a partial payment on a $100,000 Corvette,” the place of work reported.
Federal investigators also allege Rivera had the company’s payroll company payout more than $370,000 to a “fake vendor” that Rivera designed to siphon off the money, and transferred money from the company’s financial institution to pay her own utility charges.
“To get limitations on the use of the target company’s credit playing cards taken out, Rivera posed as an operator of the sufferer enterprise in telephone phone calls with the company’s credit rating card corporation,” the launch claimed. “Rivera also sent the credit rating card company photographs of the owner’s driver’s license to cause credit rating card corporation staff to believe that she was the operator.”
The case was investigated by the New York business of the FBI.