FORT WORTH, Texas – A 64-year-old Saginaw, Texas woman has
been sentenced to federal prison for bank fraud, announced Eastern District of
Texas U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
Laurie
Ann Reese pleaded guilty on July 18, 2018, to bank fraud and was sentenced to
36 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means on Mar. 26,
2019. Reese was also ordered to pay
restitution in the amount of $992,854.02.
According to information presented in court, between Jan. 6,
2013, and April 19, 2018, Reese, while a controller for the Jewish Federation
of Fort Worth and Tarrant County (JFFWTC), devised and executed a scheme to
make approximately 326 checks payable to herself from the JFFWTC bank
accounts. Reese spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars on the Home Shopping Network and QVC.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
prosecuted by Eastern District of Texas Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher A.
Eason.
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