OAKLAND – An East Bay girl has been sentenced to simply over two years in federal jail for embezzling greater than $1.6 million from a Walnut Creek-based charity, prosecutors stated.
Carrie Lynn Grant, 62, of Nice Hill, pleaded responsible to 1 rely of wire fraud on Aug. 11.
Grant served because the monetary supervisor for Junior Achievement of Northern California, a nonprofit group that gives academic supplies and applications to arrange youths to reach the worldwide financial system, in accordance with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace.
Between November 2017 and June 2023, Grant deposited charity funds into her private account and created fraudulent data to cowl her tracks, prosecutors stated.
Grant spent the stolen cash on, amongst different issues, first-class air journey, flooring seats for a Golden State Warriors recreation, and a condominium in Hawaii, prosecutors stated.
In line with her attorneys, Grant initially took the cash to make ends meet however later “used the money to give her daughter and her experiences and a life she could not otherwise afford.”
“Ms. Grant is extremely remorseful and ashamed of her actions in this case that led to her taking approximately $1.6 million from JA,” Grant’s attorneys wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
Grant’s attorneys argued their consumer must be sentenced to 5 years of probation.
“Such a sentence, in addition to the collateral consequences of Ms. Grant’s first felony and federal offense, is serious,” they wrote within the memorandum. “It will curtail her liberty, it will subject her to stringent supervision, and, along with the conditions of supervision, it will deter her from future criminal conduct and protect the public.”
Along with a jail time period of 27 months, U.S. District Decide Araceli Martinez-Olguin sentenced Grant to a few years of supervised launch. She is going to start serving her sentence on March 9.
