Financial Fraud: Lee’s Summit, Mo. Sentenced For a Series of Embezzlement Schemes

<h2>Lee&&num;8217&semi;s Summit Woman Sentenced for &dollar;1&period;5 Million Embezzlement Schemes&comma; Identity Theft<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>KANSAS CITY&comma; Mo&period; – Tom Larson&comma; Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri&comma; announced that a Lee’s Summit&comma; Mo&period;&comma; woman was sentenced in federal court today for a series of embezzlement schemes totaling more than &dollar;1&period;5 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Patricia Webb&comma; 44&comma; of Lee’s Summit&comma; was sentenced by U&period;S&period; District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to eight years in federal prison without parole&period; The court also ordered Webb to pay &dollar;1&comma;564&comma;745 in restitution to her victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Nov&period; 22&comma; 2016&comma; Webb pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft&period; Webb has been in federal custody since her bond was revoked by the court for unrelated fraudulent conduct&period; While on pretrial release in this case&comma; the government received information that Webb had submitted fraudulent documents to potential employers&period; She informed an employment agency that she was not the person in the news related to this case&comma; and that someone had stolen her identity&period; Webb also submitted an altered version of the criminal complaint filed in this case to the employment agency&period; Based upon this information&comma; the court revoked her bond and she was remanded to custody&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Webb admitted that she embezzled at least &dollar;1&comma;526&comma;594 in total from Garmin International&comma; Black and Veatch and TriStar Benefit Administrators over the course of four years&comma; 2012 through 2016&period; Webb registered a business in the name of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Beauty Within Me” and opened a bank account in the name of the business&period; She then utilized this bank account to divert money stolen from her victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Garmin Embezzlement Scheme<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Webb admitted that she embezzled &dollar;1&comma;255&comma;175 million from Garmin while employed as a senior payroll specialist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Webb caused Garmin to send 16 unauthorized Automated Clearing House payments &lpar;fund transfers&comma; such as direct deposits and business-to-business payments&rpar; to her Beauty Within Me bank account from Feb&period; 24&comma; 2012&comma; to May 30&comma; 2014&period; The payments were sent on behalf of then-current employees who were utilizing Garmin’s relocation program&period; Webb caused Garmin funds to be recorded to the in-transit employee’s W-2&comma; under the code &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;P&comma;” which was inflated to mask Webb’s embezzlement&period; After the clearing of the ACH payments&comma; Webb would alter Garmin’s general ledger to reflect the fraudulent payments as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Relocation Expenses&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Black and Veatch Embezzlement Scheme<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Webb admitted that she embezzled &dollar;302&comma;183 from Black and Veatch while employed as a global payroll manager&period; Webb was employed by Black and Veatch from January 2015 until March 4&comma; 2016 and earned &dollar;90&comma;000 per year&period; Webb facilitated unauthorized wire transfers and ACH transactions from the company’s payroll account to her Beauty Within Me business bank account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An analysis of Webb’s bank account shows a large amount of spending at casinos and cash withdrawals at casinos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>TriStar Embezzlement Scheme<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Webb admitted that she stole the identity of another employee while she was working at Garmin in order to embezzle &dollar;7&comma;385 from TriStar Benefit Administrators&comma; the company which managed Garmin’s healthcare savings accounts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Webb used the personal identifiable information of another Garmin employee to create a flexible spending account without his knowledge or consent&period; Webb submitted a request for reimbursement to TriStar in the name of this employee on July 18&comma; 2011&period; The request was for hospital treatment in the amount of &dollar;7&comma;385 and the payment from TriStar was sent to Webb’s bank account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This case was prosecuted by Assistant U&period;S&period; Attorney Paul S&period; Becker&period; It was investigated by the FBI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-wdmo&sol;pr&sol;lees-summit-woman-sentenced-15-million-embezzlement-schemes-identity-theft">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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