A north Georgia woman pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling more than half a million dollars from her employer.
Federal officials said Judy Elaine Henry, office manager of Bec-Don, a construction supply business, wrote checks to herself from the company’s account. Between 2006 and 2014, she embezzled more than $500,000 by making false entries in the Ringgold-based company’s checkbook. Accounting records “to make it appear that the checks had been issued to pay legitimate company expenses,” officials said.
Henry, 50, of LaFayette, entered a guilty plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
“The guilty plea of Ms. Henry concludes the federal investigation into her eight years of embezzling from her employer,” J. Britt Johnson, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta field office, said in a statement. “The loss amounts in this case are significant as well as her breach of trust to those who counted on her to help oversee company funds.”
Henry will be sentenced July 10, officials said.
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