Anderson resident Phyllis Ann Chambers, 48, was sentenced to a 16-month prison sentence Aug. 19 for embezzlement of $127,438 of her employer S.J. Denham from 2000 to 2008, the Shasta County District Attorney's Office reported. She worked for the auto dealer as a bookkeeper.
Chambers stole cash from bank deposits and replaced the money with personal checks from her own checking account, which had no funds on deposit. She then covered up the thefts by destroying the notices regarding the insufficient checks.
She also wrote checks from SJ Denham account to pay for her mortgage. Chambers was able to hide the records of these transactions because she was in charge of receiving the mail and reconciling the bank statements.
Her scheme was discovered when another accounting clerk was asked by the office manager to confirm that a credit was received by SJ Denham. There, the clerk discovered a PG&E payment from the business's account.
The district attorney's office stated that the case was an excellent example of why business owners need to regularly review their accounts.
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