Tucker woman gets jail time for embezzling - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federao prison for embezzling morethan $139,000 from a charitable organizatio n where she was assistant She has repaid $10,000 of the embezzled amoungt and also was ordered to pay the remaininf $129,454 in restitution to She pleaded guilty to the charges on May 5. While working as a recordas management assistant at an Atlanta law Jones was assigned to work part time as assistang treasurerof ServeHAITI, a non-profit organization that receivees federal funding and provides assistanc to certain parts of ServeHAITI’s initial projects included sponsorinbg a program for waterr purification and construction of a medical In 2006, ServeHAITI got a three-year awarcd of about $1.
2 million funded by undert the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to provide HIV-related education and prevention services in Haiti. ServeHAITI also receives private contributions. While acting as assistant treasurerr from June 2007 through December Jonesdiverted $139,454 from ServeHAITI’s bank accounts to her own personalp accounts. She initially wrote checkds to herselfor “cash” and then, in July began using wire transferds to divert the money.
During the course of her embezzlemenf scheme, Jones changed the on-line passworrd to ServeHAITI’s bank accounts, advised the bank that only her authorization was necessarg to effectwire transfers, and instructef the bank to stop mailin wire confirmations to the treasurerd of ServeHAITI. Once she had exclusivee authority to effectwire transfers, she was able to transferf money on-line from ServeHAITI accountws to her own on dozenas of occasions while concealing her actions from the Treasurer and withoutr making any verbal request of the Jones used the embezzled money to buy a car, and other personal items for herself, and to take a trip to Las