Angelina Marie Parker, Embezzlement, North Carolina 2016

STATESVILLE, N.C. – Angelina Marie Parker, 44, of Lincolnton, N.C., has been sentenced to serve 37 months in prison for stealing more than $253,000 from her former employer.

On Monday, January 11, 2016, U.S. District Judge Richard Voorhees handed down the sentence to Parker, who was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $158,134 in restitution.

Parker was employed as an office manager by Piedmont Urgent Care of North Carolina, Inc. (Piedmont Urgent Care), formerly located in Hickory, N.C.

According to court documents and evidence presented at the sentencing hearing, Parker used her position to embezzle over $250,000 from her employer between 2004 and 2009.

Parker executed the embezzlement scheme by generating unauthorized company checks payable in her name and the name of a relative, and then forging the signatures of the doctors who owned Piedmont Urgent Care.

The checks were then deposited into her bank account and the bank accounts of relatives, and Parker concealed her theft of Piedmont Urgent Care’s money by altering the accounting records in the healthcare company’s computer system.

Parker used the money to pay for personal expenses, and eventually pleaded guilty in September 2014, to three counts of uttering counterfeit securities, namely the company’s checks, with the intent to deceive the organization.

At the sentencing hearing, the court heard victim testimony regarding the initial discovery of Parker’s embezzlement and the substantial impact it had on Piedmont Urgent Care, its employees, and the company’s owners.

Parker admitted to stealing as much as $5,000 a month for five years from the company, and the physicians who owned Piedmont Urgent Care were unable to recover from the effects of her embezzlement, eventually ceasing operations in 2014 and resulting in 12 employees losing their jobs.

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