Former director of accounting and human resources pleads guilty to embezzlement

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WHITE PLAINS – The former director of accounting and human resources for a kitchen remodeling firm in Westchester County and Greenwich, Connecticut has pled guilty in federal court to wire fraud in connection with her embezzlement of more than $630,000 from her former employer, federal officials announced.

According to allegation contained in court documents, in October 2019, Susana Rivera, 40, of the Bronx was hired by the company, a family-owned kitchen design and remodeling business in Mamaroneck, Bedford and Greenwich.

Starting in November of 2019, she made hundreds of unauthorized charges amounting to more than $175,000 on company credit cards for personal expenses, including jewelry, beauty treatments, laser treatments, travel, lets, cosmetic surgery, clothing and cars, including a partial payment on a $100,000 Corvette.

Rivera is also alleged to have caused the company’s payroll company to make unauthorized payments in a net amount of more than $370,000 to a fake vendor that Rivera created to receive the money.

She also caused unauthorized transfers of more than $2,900 from the victim company’s bank account to pay her personal utility bills.

To get restrictions on the use of the company’s credit cards removed, Rivera posed as an owner in telephone calls with the company’s credit card company and sent the credit card company photographs of the owner’s driver’s license to cause the credit card company personnel to believe she was the owner.

When sentenced, Rivera faces up to 20 years in prison on her guilty plea to one count of wire fraud.




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