A char in Anchorage , Alaska was pulling off an embezzlement schema so sly that even an IRS audit did n’t reveal the theft . But then her boss ’s grandson taint peepaw ’s computer with a computer virus , at long last lead to the discovery of assumed checks .
Raenette K. Yangson , 42 , has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for defalcate around $ 753,000 from a construction party where she worked as a bookkeeper from 2006 to 2013,the Anchorage Daily News reports . westerly Construction and Equipment owner Jeff Light says Yangson slowly syphoned that money by forging tick to her hubby and herself , later editing information in the business ’s accounting system so it looked as if she had paid other business .
The former bookkeeper might have catch away with the plan , if Light ’s grandson had n’t infected Light ’s computer with a computer virus . At the metre , Light was signed in to the company net and was n’t able to log off due to the computer virus , so Yangson could n’t access and tamper with the accounts .
Yangson then attempt a different fraudulent Holy Scripture - equilibrate tactic , entering a $ 14,000 payment as a “ fee . ” Light roll in the hay his fellowship would n’t be paying a fee like that during that fourth dimension of yr . He savvy deeply and saw that the check had Yangston ’s married man ’s name on it .
Light says he dug up hundreds of checks and passed on the information to constabulary enforcement . In addition to her prison sentence , Yangson must pay restitution and about $ 206,000 in taxes on the embezzled money .
For once , it seems , an unwise download delivered more than just a pirate Minecraft clone .
[ Anchorage Daily News ]
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