U.S. Attorney Duane Evans announced that 39 YO Christy Bartholomew of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to a two-count Bill of Information for wire fraud before United States District Court Judge Lance M. Africk.
According to court records, she was employed as a financial controller for a business located in Slidell, and later worked as an office manager for a company located in Kenner.
From 2016 to October of 2019, she embezzled approximately $357,000 from her Slidell employer by several schemes, including unauthorized use of a company credit card. She later did the same thing with her Kenner employer, embezzling approximately $300,000 from November 2019 to February 2020.
Sentencing is scheduled for October 27, 2021. At that time, Bartholomew faces up to twenty years in prison, up to $250,000 in fines, and up to three years of supervised release.
