Hachelle Alsip, Wire Fraud, Kentucky 2022

A Kenton County woman has been sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for her role in a wire fraud scheme.

According to court documents, Hachelle Alsip, 42, of Independence, Ky., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Bunning on Wednesday for wire fraud. She was hired by Victory Mortgage in 2016 as a loan funding representative to assist with the distribution of funds for loans provided by the lending company to its borrowers.

However, in 2021, Alsip caused two wire transfers totaling $507,000 to be made from one of Victory Mortgage’s business checking accounts into a personal bank account belonging to her and her husband.

Alsip pleaded guilty in June 2022 to the charge of wire fraud, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. However, under federal law, Alsip must serve 85 percent of her prison sentence, which will be approximately 23.8 months.

Upon her release from prison, Alsip will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for three years.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, with the United States represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle Winslow.

The sentence was jointly announced by Carlton S. Shier, IV, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Jodi Cohen, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Louisville Field Office; and Sheriff Michael Helmig, Boone County Sheriff’s Office.