Local Builder’s Former Bookkeeper Admits Fraud
| U.S. Attorney’s Office October 13, 2010 |
AMARILLO, TX—Trisia Leann Jordan, 33, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to one count of fraud in connection with access devices, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Jordan faces a maximum statutory sentence of 15 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution. Sentencing is set for December 22, 2010.
According to plea documents filed in the case, Jordan worked as a bookkeeper for the Ferrin Company, a local builder in Amarillo. In her position she had access to all of the company’s bank accounts and transferred all of the Ferrin accounts to online services over which she had exclusive control.
She admitted that in 2007 she began making unauthorized transfers of company funds at Chase Bank to her personal accounts and then made payments to her personal credit cards and to herself. The fraud was discovered in late 2007 when the Ferrin Company began experiencing cash flow problems and bank statements revealed the unauthorized money transfers that Jordan had made.
The case is being investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Drake of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Amarillo.