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Defendant Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions from Employer
Seattle, WA – A 39-year-old Kent woman, Christin Guillory, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax fraud charges for her 10-year embezzlement scheme.
Guillory, an Accounting Manager at an Everett-based manufacturing company, stole more than $2.5 million from her employer by transferring funds to accounts she set up in the names of fake companies and then routing the funds to her own bank accounts.
According to the plea agreement, Guillory set up an account with payment processor Square in April 2013. Between 2014 and 2019, she secretly paid $1,695,591 to that account and then transferred the money to her own bank accounts. She made false entries in the company books to conceal the theft.
In 2019, Guillory stopped using Square for her fraud and instead used two PayPal accounts. She gave one of the PayPal accounts a display name similar to that of her employer. For the second account, she used the name of a shipping company with which she had no affiliation.
Guillory is also charged with making a false tax return for failing to report the more than $2.5 million in income she embezzled. For example, for the tax year 2019, Guillory represented that her income was $38,022, but failed to report the $615,392 in income she received that year from her embezzlement.
The scheme was detected when a financial institution reported irregularities. Guillory faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez on August 11, 2023.
Key Facts
- State: Washington
- Category: White Collar Crime|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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