A former San Antonio bookkeeper has admitted to stealing a staggering $1.7 million from her previous employer, a private law firm in the city.
Irene M. Scott, who worked as a bookkeeper and financial manager for the law firm between August 2011 and February 2020, pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud on September 1, 2021.
According to court documents, Scott used three office credit cards assigned to employees or former employees to make non-firm related purchases totaling over $1.2 million between 2012 and 2020. An estimated three-fourths of those funds went to support her husband’s outdoor lighting business.
She concealed on the firm’s financial ledgers credit card payments she made using the firm’s operating account. Scott also stole an estimated $417,000 by fraudulently withdrawing from the firm’s operating bank account about 200 times during a two-year period beginning in January 2018. She disguised those withdrawals in the firm’s ledger as vendor payments.
Scott committed these fraudulent acts without the knowledge or authorization of any member of the firm.
Irene M. Scott remains on bond and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 9, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Fred Biery.
The FBI investigated this case, with Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew W. Kinskey and Joseph E. Blackwell prosecuting.
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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