Monument Company Worker Embezzled $12.9 Million from Employer

[nitpicker]

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Western District of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Monument Company Worker Embezzled $12.9 Million from Employer

PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. Cynthia A. Mills, 56, of McKees Rocks, Pa., pleaded guilty to six counts (one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, one count of tax evasion, and one count of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property) before United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer.

In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that from February 1999 to May 2015, Mills embezzled $12,969,774.42 from Matthews International Corporation where she was employed as a Cashier and Treasury Specialist.

Judge Fischer scheduled sentencing for July 28, 2017, at 9:30 a.m. The law provides for a total sentence of 95 years in prison, a fine of $1,500,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
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[mrmpa]

1. A friend of ours worked there............

he retired from there. Unfortunately he died in January 2015. His wife knew this woman's name, and figured her husband knew her. Small work force, but the company has an international presence.