Embezzlement

Trucking bookkeeper already in prison for embezzlement sentenced for PPP fraud

Already serving six years and eight months in federal prison for embezzling more than $700,000 from the trucking company where she worked, a Missouri woman has been sentenced to two more years in prison for committing Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud. 

U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schlep called Christen Diane Schulte’s behavior “outrageous” and “very aggravating,” in a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.

In September, Schulte, now 37,...

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Maritime company employee sentenced after stealing $7 million

Deepak “Jack” Jagtiani was sentenced to more than five years in prison for embezzling over $7 million from a Metairie, Louisiana-based marine cargo company and for defrauding the government of over $1 million in income taxes.

Jagtiani, 61, who was facing a maximum of 20 years in prison when he was indicted last year, admitted that he used his authority as the comptroller of Dan-Gulf Shipping Inc. to pay himself excessive salaries and benefits from the company between 2009 and 2019. Dan-Gulf...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/maritime-company-employee-sentenced-after-stealing-7-million

Big trucks and big bucks — WHAT THE TRUCK?!? (with video)

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Employee pleads guilty to stealing $7M from marine cargo company

An employee responsible for overseeing the finances of a U.S. Gulf Coast shipping company specializing in heavy-lift cargo pleaded guilty to embezzling over $7 million and making false statements on a federal income tax return.

Deepak “Jack” Jagtiani, who had been the comptroller of Metairie, Louisiana-based Dan-Gulf Shipping, admitted guilt in federal court Tuesday to both counts of an indictment filed against him in December.

Jagtiani, 60, admitted he used his authority to pay himself excessive...

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Utah trucking company ex-payroll manager pleads guilty to charges related to embezzlement

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The former payroll manager of a Utah trucking company has switched her plea to guilty on charges connected to an embezzlement scheme that cost Parke Cox Trucking about a half-million dollars.

Danielle Apadaca-Roberts, according to local press reports in the St. George News, changed her plea to guilty this week in federal district court in Utah. The initial legal complaint filed against her in April says she worked at a company called P.C.T.. beginning in 2006, but  Shanna Lelli, a consultant...

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