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CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY By Henri Hollis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2 hours ago Two workers bought homes, luxury cars and jewelry with money from fake invoices Two former Amazon employees pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $10 million from the tech giant in a period of about 18 months, federal officials announced. The co-defendants have each been ordered to surrender millions of dollars worth of property, luxury vehicles and jewelry bought with their fraudulent proceeds.
Kayricka Wortham, 31, of Atlanta, and Demetrius Hines, 35, of Smyrna, each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Ryan K. Buchanan said. Wortham and Hines are both set to be sentenced March 8, 2023.
“The defendants abused their trusted positions to steal nearly $10 million from the company over the course of just a few months,” Buchanan said. “This staggering fraud was fueled by pure greed, as evidenced by the high-end real estate, luxury cars, and expensive jewelry that the defendants quickly accumulated with their fraudulent proceeds.”
According to Buchanan, Wortham worked for Amazon from August 2020 until March 2022 as an operations manager at the company’s Smyrna warehouse. Described by prosecutors as the leader of the scheme, Wortham held a supervisory role and had the authority to approve new vendors and pay vendor invoices.
Hines’ title was Loss Prevention Multi-Site Lead, and he also worked at Amazon’s Smyrna warehouse, though his role took him to other company sites, Buchanan said.
Wortham and Hines used the money to fund lavish lifestyles, racking up a long list of major purchases in a relatively short period of time.
Wortham was ordered to return about $2.7 million in cash seized from different bank accounts, Buchanan said. She will also forfeit a Smyrna home purchased for $900,000 and fleet of luxury cars, including a 2019 Lamborghini Urus SUV, a 2022 Tesla Model X and a 2018 Porsche Panamera.
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Obviously no Bentley dealer in that area. Cheap hustlers.
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A place I worked a group of employees who had become pizzed at the company set up their own business within the company. Doing business on company time on the company's computers, warehousing and shipping product from a rented storage locker. All of them served jail time and were ordered to make monetary restitution for that little caper. At another company a couple of engineers were stealing company designs and manufacturing product to sell lining their own pockets with the proceeds. One day the police descended on the plant and herded all the employees into the lunchroom with bullhorns. Doors were chained and padlocked shut and the guilty parties faced stiff fines for their criminal activities, a few saw jail time there too.
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I guess Kayricka thought no one would notice the $600,000 a month spike on the expense graph.
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But other peoples got nice things, why not me?
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Can't figure out how they got caught!
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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they be making sure that they get their reparation payments
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