June 2026

A relatively common method of employee theft that individuals use to conceal their schemes is the creation of either false companies or false invoices.

The fraudsters then set these accounts up to divert company funds directly to themselves while, to the employer, the invoice payments appear to be legitimate. This is especially...

In March of 2023, the arrest of Mr. Kevin Chiu was made public due to his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme in which he is said to have conducted a scheme to embezzle monies from his former client’s accounts.

After the arrest, FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll stated, “Today’s...

Ms. Andrea Anderson worked as a part-time administrative employee of the Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsman (BSAC) from 2013 until 2022.

The union office for BSAC was inside the garage of Ms. Anderson’s father. Part of Ms. Anderson’s administrative duties included signing checks, secretarial work, and paying bills. Additionally, Ms. Anderson...

Working overtime is something that we all experience at least once.

There can be individuals who take advantage of this concept through, claiming additional hours that were not actually worked. Police officers can often work longer hours, but in the case of the Bethany Beach Police Department there were hundreds of overtime...

In July 2024, Mr. Ruiz De Chavez pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

From 2004 to 2020, Mr. Ruiz De Chavez served as the operations manager at a trucking company. While employed at the trucking company, Mr. Chavez conducted a scheme consisting of generating fake invoices appearing to be genuine invoices for goods...

Megan Lea Dougherty was employed at the Fayette branch of Exchange Bank of Missouri. Ms. Dougherty engaged in a scheme to embezzle money from Exchange Bank of Missouri from 2008 to 2023.

Ms. Dougherty began working in the bank’s IT and customer service department in 2008 and began removing small amounts of money...

According to court documents, Ms. Kelly Whitmore-Behling was sentenced to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years’ supervised release for her role in an embezzlement scheme.

The scheme began during Ms. Whitmore-Behling and her co-defendant’s employment for the City of Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works. One of their responsibilities...

Ms. Christin Guillory, an accounting manager at an Everett-based manufacturing company in Seattle, Washington, allegedly misappropriated more than $2.5 million from her employer by transferring funds to bank accounts Ms. Guillory set up in the names of created companies, and then transferring the funds to her personal bank accounts.

In order to take...