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SANTA ANA, CALIF.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An Orange County man plead guilty to embezzling approximately $1.4 million from his employer, a crime he committed when he was pending sentencing in another embezzlement case involving another former employer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"criminal_justice_jurisprudencePeter Suk Lee<\/strong>, 49, a resident of the City of Orange, plead guilty \u00a0Monday to a federal bank fraud charge. He admitted that he embezzled company funds from Contempo Inc. USA,<\/strong> a family-owned, Los Angeles-based business that imports and distributes fashion accessories.<\/span><\/p>\n

In court, Lee also admitted that, between his stints at Contempo and another business, Glovis America Inc.<\/strong>, he embezzled from a third company.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee specifically admitted that he stole about $70,000 from the Placentia-based Orion Technology, Inc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He faces up to 90 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on Aug. 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

From August 2014 through September 2015, Lee was the controller at Contempo. <\/span><\/p>\n

During this time, Lee embezzled money by forging the signatures of the company officers on 92 unauthorized checks that were made out to him and several associates. <\/span><\/p>\n

The total value of these checks was $1.38 million. Lee admitted that he deposited $393,400 embezzled from Contempo into his personal TD Ameritrade account, and caused other embezzled funds to be wired to casinos for his use.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, Lee was free on bond and awaiting sentencing after he plead guilty to wire fraud for embezzling money from another business. <\/span><\/p>\n

In that prior case, Lee admitted that he embezzled approximately $2.65 million from Glovis, an Irvine-based automotive logistics company where Lee had been employed as the accounting manager.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis defendant\u2019s brazen theft of millions of dollars from three different employers in only a few years was extremely harmful to those companies,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker<\/strong>. \u201cThat Mr. Lee continued to victimize employers while pending sentencing on fraud charges makes his actions all the more outrageous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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