ATLANTA – Stantisha D. Kemp, an accounting manager who
embezzled over $1.2 million dollars from her employer over a six-year period
has been sentenced.
“Kemp’s egregious misconduct threatened the financial
soundness of her company when she stole over one million dollars,” said U.S.
Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak.
“Businesses should build in checks and balances in their accounting
procedures that safeguard their assets from fraud.”
“Hopefully this sentencing makes a statement that the FBI is
committed to making cases like this a strong deterrent to the temptation of
greed,” said Ricardo Grave de Peralta, Acting Special Agent in Charge of FBI
Atlanta. “Kemp not only defrauded the company she worked for, she also violated
the trust they put in her.”
According to U.S. Attorney Pak, the charges and other
information presented in court: From 2007 to 2013, Kemp served as a payroll and
accounting manager of an Atlanta-based company that developed medical
technology. During that time, Kemp embezzled over $1.2 million dollars by
falsifying payroll records sent to a third-party payroll processing company and
instructing the payroll processor to direct deposit funds into her personal bank
accounts on a monthly basis.
Kemp falsely instructed the payroll processing company that
a doctor with the initials Y.H.J. was a company employee, and she further
instructed the payroll processing company to direct deposit Y.H.J.’s salary
payments into her personal bank accounts.
She concealed her scheme by preparing a set of fabricated internal
payroll records that made no mention of Y.H.J., who had not been employed by
the company since early April 2010.
Nonetheless, Y.H.J.’s unauthorized salary payments were deposited into
Kemp’s personal bank accounts, month after month, until February 2013.
Kemp was sentenced to two years in prison to be followed by
three years of supervised release on August 1, 2018. She was also ordered to
pay restitution in the amount of $1,253,287.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Assistant U.S Attorney Kamal Ghali, Deputy Chief of the
Cyber and Intellectual Property Crime Section, prosecuted the case.
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