Angelique Patterson, Financial Fraud, Missouri 2024
A former Richmond Heights hotel manager has been sentenced to 39 months in prison for committing multiple financial frauds.
Angelique Patterson, 40, manipulated the hotel's reservation system to alter the records of customers who had paid using cash or credit cards between March and October 2023. She retroactively changed those reservations to falsely show that the customers had used the hotel's loyalty rewards system 'points' for their stay. Patterson then added her own credit or debit card information into the system and had the customers' payments 'refunded' to her.
On Oct. 4, 2023, Patterson tried to use the hotel's desk computer and a coworker's credentials to fraudulently refund herself an additional $61,998, despite not being on duty. The FBI investigated the case.
Patterson also used hotel customers' credit card information from August through September 2021 to make fake charges via the entertainment company she owned, Angel Entertains LLC. She obtained or tried to obtain $109,000 that way.
Patterson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in September to five counts of wire fraud.
The Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gwen Carroll and Cort VanOstran prosecuted the case.
According to the sentencing order, Patterson must also repay $226,882 as a result of her crimes.
Key Facts
- State: Missouri
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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