Kimberly McGuire, Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft, Indiana 2017

An Elkhart woman is going to prison for a brazen scheme that left her former employer and its employees out hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Kimberly McGuire, 49, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced to 84 months in prison followed by 1 year of supervised release and ordered to pay $584,506.22 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana.

The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Robert L. Miller, Jr., Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division, for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

According to documents filed in this case, starting in November 2012 and continuing through April 2017, McGuire accessed the payroll system of her former employer and logged in unworked work hours under the names of more than 140 former employees.

McGuire admitted to causing the wages for these unworked hours of former employees to be direct deposited into bank accounts controlled by her or her associates. She also admitted to obtaining payroll checks for the unworked hours, forging the signatures of the former employees on these checks, and depositing the checks into bank accounts controlled by her or her associates.

The case was investigated by the FBI and was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Luke N. Reilander.

McGuire’s scheme left her former employer and its employees out hundreds of thousands of dollars. The exact amount of the loss is not clear, but the court order for restitution totals $584,506.22. The case serves as a reminder that even the most seemingly minor crimes can have devastating consequences.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana are to be commended for their work in bringing McGuire to justice.

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