Alicia Raynor, Wire Fraud, New York 2024

A Westfield woman has been sent to prison for stealing thousands of dollars from a healthcare agency in a scheme that involved wire fraud and tax evasion.

Alicia Raynor, 44, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison and 18 months of home detention by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. for her role in stealing $799,625.27 from Compassion at Home, Inc., a healthcare agency in New York.

According to court documents, Raynor worked as the business manager for Compassion at Home, Inc., and used the accounting software package Quickbooks to make payments into an account she controlled. She then diverted money from the company’s bank accounts to her own accounts, disguising the transactions to avoid detection.

Between August 2015 and June 2016, Raynor fraudulently diverted approximately $238,871.58 from the company’s bank account. She also failed to report $1,214,444 in payments from Compassion at Home on her tax returns for the years 2013 through 2016, leaving the Internal Revenue Service an estimated $370,005 in unpaid taxes.

The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Westfield Police Department.

Raynor’s scheme was uncovered through a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Steven Belongia, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, under the direction of Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge, New York Field Office, and the Westfield Police Department, under the direction of Chief Robert Genther.

Alicia Raynor, Defendant

Wire Fraud and Filing a False Tax Return, Charges

Buffalo, NY, Crime Date: N/A

18 months in prison and 18 months home detention, Sentence

$799,625.27, Restitution

Compassion at Home, Inc., Victim

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