Louisiana Woman Sentenced for Embezzling More than $750,000 from Healthcare Company
Louisiana Woman Sentenced for Embezzling More than $750,000 From Healthcare Company
Published February 7, 2022
Louisiana – United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Brittany Monroe Knapp, age 35, of Denham Springs, Louisiana, to 46 months in federal prison following her conviction for wire fraud. The Court further sentenced Knapp to serve three years of supervised release following her term of imprisonment and ordered her to pay restitution in the amount of $869,940.
According to admissions made as part of her guilty plea, on or about November 14, 2019, Knapp submitted an expense report to the Oceans Healthcare corporate office in Plano, Texas, from a computer in Baton Rouge, in which she falsely represented that Employee A had authorized the purchase of certain equipment from a vendor, at a cost of approximately $1,338.00, to conceal the fact that she had actually charged $1,338.00 in Oceans Healthcare funds to an online PayPal account.
Knapp also admitted that on or around December 15, 2019, from a computer in Baton Rouge, she submitted an expense report to the Oceans Healthcare corporate office in Plano, Texas, in which she falsely represented that Employee A had authorized the purchase of certain products from the vendor for approximately $1,919.62, in order to conceal the fact that she had actually charged $1,919.62 in Oceans Healthcare funds to an online PayPal account that she controls.
Throughout the fraudulent scheme, Knapp embezzled more than $750,000 in Oceans Healthcare funds to which she was not entitled.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Edward H. Warner.
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