BOSTON
A woman who was employed as a nanny plead guilty this week in federal court in connection with forging 65 checks totaling over $280,000 from her employers’ bank account, according to officials.
Stephanie L. Fox, 30, plead guilty to three counts of bank fraud after being arrested and charged in October.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for Feb. 18.
Fox is facing up to 30 years in prison and a fine of $1 million, officials said.
Fox was employed as a nanny from about February 2013 until August 2015 when her employers discovered that for more than a year, Fox had been writing checks on one of their bank accounts and forging one of their signatures on the checks, officials said.
Authorities said Fox avoided detection by destroying the bank account statements when they arrived at her employers’ home.
In total, officials said Fox forged 65 checks totaling $281,917.
She used the money to purchase jewelry, including a diamond pendant necklace and three Movado watches, as well as for travel to places such as the Bahamas, Aruba, Hawaii, Newport, Disney, and Cape Cod, according to officials.