{"id":52829,"date":"2023-04-17T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52829"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:06:08","slug":"woman-who-embezzled-3-million-from-employer-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52829","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Embezzled $3 Million from Employer Sentenced to Five Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-51995 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"woman in gold dress holding sword figurine\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tingey-injury-law-firm-l4ygusg0fxs-unsplash-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">An Orange County woman, who embezzled over <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">$3 million from two companies while she worked as their financial controller, cheated on her taxes and fraudulently received a COVID-relief business loan, officials stated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Federal Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Rosalba Meza to five years and three months in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">The judge also ordered Meza, 48, a.k.a. \u201cRosalba Sceville,\u201d of Dana Point to pay $4,192,470 in restitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meza pleaded guilty in December 2022 to one count of wire fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From May 2017 through the end of 2019, Meza made unauthorized transfers \u2013 totaling approximately $3,071,880 \u2013 to her bank accounts from accounts belonging to Trilogy Plumbing Inc. and a related back-office support company called Matrix Management LLC, both based in Anaheim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2782 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-308x192.jpg 308w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation..jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Meza held various positions at these companies since 2003 and was entrusted with access to and control of the companies\u2019 financial and banking information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\"> In her role, Meza \u2013 whose annual salary was approximately $65,000 \u2013 oversaw and handled the companies&#8217; daily financial activities, including banking, bookkeeping, and preparation of financial statements. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">She also had the authority to access the companies\u2019 bank accounts to make authorized electronic payments on the companies&#8217; behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1381 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/irs2-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/irs2-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/irs2.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Meza used her knowledge of the companies\u2019 accounting software to falsify their accounting records intentionally. She misrepresented the amounts in the companies\u2019 various accounts to conceal the unauthorized transfers and falsely showed the accounts were balanced. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">For example, Meza falsely recorded some unauthorized transfers as business expenses when in fact, these amounts were payments to herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In February 2019, Meza told executives their companies did not have funds to meet payroll obligations and failed to inform the executives that she had been embezzling from the companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7857 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FBI-Logo-289x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FBI-Logo-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FBI-Logo.png 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/>Several months later, while the companies were the subject of an IRS enforcement action because of unpaid payroll taxes, Meza falsely told the executives that she did not pay the quarterly payroll taxes because she instead had used those funds to pay employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once Meza transferred the funds to her accounts, she used the stolen money on personal expenses, withdrew a large amount in cash, wired a significant amount to a family member-owned bank account in Mexico and made other transfers of the illicitly obtained funds to family and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scheme lasted until January 2020, when Trilogy and Matrix fired Meza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cParticularly troubling is that in executing her embezzlement scheme, [Meza] took advantage of the responsibility she was entrusted with at the expense of her employers,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201c[Meza\u2019s] fraudulent schemes ran the course of several years and caused significant harm. This is not the case of defendant making one bad decision on one particular day; this is a pattern of bad decisions that spanned the course of several years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to her embezzlement, for the tax years 2017, 2018 and 2019, Meza knowingly and willfully signed \u2013 under penalty of perjury \u2013 false personal federal income tax returns that vastly understated her annual income. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">For example, on her 2018 federal tax return, Meza falsely reported that her income was $65,728, which did not include the $1,363,654 she obtained that year from stealing from her employers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In total, Meza willfully failed to report $3,132,617 in income to the IRS, resulting in a total tax loss of $1,100,022 to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In her plea agreement, Meza admitted to submitting a false and fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application for $20,569 for Rosalba Meza, her eponymous business entity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">In support of that loan application, Meza falsely listed monthly payroll and tax information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">A bank approved the false application and disbursed her requested loan proceeds to the bank account she listed on the PPP paperwork, causing a loss of $20,569.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation investigated this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1335670148MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Special Assistant United States Attorney Ryan G. Adams of the Santa Ana Branch Office prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California An Orange County woman, who embezzled over $3 million from two companies while she worked as their financial controller, cheated on her taxes and fraudulently received a COVID-relief business&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3274,788],"class_list":["post-52829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-covid-19","tag-embezzle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Woman Who Embezzled $3 Million from Employer Sentenced 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