{"id":50476,"date":"2022-07-29T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=50476"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:33:16","slug":"california-woman-sentenced-to-more-than-four-years-in-prison-for-diversity-recruitment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=50476","title":{"rendered":"California Woman Sentenced to More Than Four Years In Prison for Diversity Recruitment Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1611 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FBI-Logo-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FBI-Logo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FBI-Logo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The former human resources manager at a Santa Clarita-based race car design and development company was sentenced Friday to four years and three months in federal prison for scheming to defraud her then-employer out of more than $1.7 million earmarked for diversity recruitment, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Judith Fernandez-Adelugba, 45, of Stevenson Ranch, used two fake businesses that billed for services that were never performed, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0U.S. District Judge John F. Walter also ordered her to<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> pay $1,745,964 in restitution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1537 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LADYJUSTICE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"240\" \/>\u00a0Judge Walter said Fernandez-Adelugba was \u201cdriven by pure greed\u201d and that her criminal conduct had left her employer \u201cshaken to the core.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fernandez-Adelugba pleaded guilty in August 2021 to one count of wire fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">She worked as the chief human resources manager at a business identified in court documents as \u201cCompany-1,\u201d a Santa Clarita-based company that provided a technical and operations center for high-performance racing programs and specialized in the design and development of high-performance automotive parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fernandez-Adelugba was responsible for the company\u2019s diversity recruitment, which included implementing and managing programs to encourage persons from diverse gender, racial, ethnic, and other backgrounds to apply for jobs with her employer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>She also had the authority to approve the payment of invoices of up to $25,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">To assist her in the scheme, Fernandez-Adelugba recruited her father, George Fernandez, 75, of Stevenson Ranch, and Alex Lawrence Wilkison, 49, of Canyon Country, who was married to Fernandez-Adelugba\u2019s work colleague at Company-1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">George Fernandez was the president and CEO of the Stevenson Ranch-based company, Business Solutions Services (BSS). Wilkison was the registered owner of Engineering Talent Connect (ETC), a fictitious business name registered to an address in Mission Hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">From March 2015 until her resignation from Company-1 in February 2018, Fernandez-Adelugba, her father, and Wilkison used BSS and ETC to embezzle Company-1 funds \u2013 money they used for their own personal enrichment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50324 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wyxqqpyfnk8-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"white and black printer paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wyxqqpyfnk8-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wyxqqpyfnk8-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wyxqqpyfnk8-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wyxqqpyfnk8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Participants in the scheme submitted to Company-1 fake invoices issued by BSS and ETC that requested payment for diversity recruitment-related services purportedly performed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">These \u201cservices\u201d included posting job openings, placing job-related advertisements, searching for candidates, and successfully recruiting candidates for Company-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fernandez-Adelugba approved the fake invoices for payment, delivered them to Company-1\u2019s accounting department, and followed up to request and facilitate payment of the fake invoices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After Company-1 issued payments on the fake invoices, Fernandez-Adelugba and her co-schemers used their illicit gains for personal expenditures such as trips to Las Vegas, credit card bills, and dining at restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50341 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 From March 2015 to November 2017, Fernandez-Adelugba caused 150 fake invoices to be submitted to Company-1, which in turn caused it to transfer a total of $1,745,964 to the two scheme-related companies \u2013 $1,562,364 to BSS and $183,600 to ETC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fernandez-Adelugba paid kickbacks to her co-schemers and kept more than $1.1 million of the scheme\u2019s ill-gotten gains, which she used for her personal benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u201cCompany-1 suffered more than just that feeling of betrayal,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201c[Fernandez-Adelugba\u2019s] embezzlement of funds earmarked for diversity recruitment caused Company-1 to fall behind its diversity recruiting goals. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Because of [Fernandez-Adelugba\u2019s] greed and selfishness, many worthy diverse engineers may have been denied potential careers at Company-1.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wilkison pleaded guilty in November 2020 to one count of wire fraud and is serving a six-month federal prison sentence. Judge Walter ordered Wilkison to pay $183,600 in restitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 George Fernandez has agreed to pay $103,140 in restitution to Company-1 as part of a pretrial diversion agreement with federal prosecutors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Superseding information filed in September 2021 charged Fernandez with misprision of a felony for failing to report his daughter\u2019s act of wire fraud in March 2018 despite knowing of her criminal conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FBI investigated this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5259884275MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 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