Pittsburg: Woman pleads no contest to $1.39 million embezzlement from local food company

MARTINEZ — A former worker of a Filipino meals firm pleaded no contest to monetary crimes in a scheme to embezzle $1.4 million from her employer, prosecutors introduced Friday.

Mary Antoinette Narvaez Hernandez, 60, pleaded no contest on Thursday to grand theft, identification theft, cash laundering, and tax evasion, as a part of a plea cope with Contra Costa prosecutors. In return, she’ll be sentenced to a yr in county jail, with the potential to serve it on home arrest, in addition to a seven-year suspended sentence and three years of probation.

Hernandez was the accounting supervisor at Ramar Meals Worldwide, a meals firm based mostly in Pittsburg. She embezzled the funds over a five-year interval beginning in 2016. She additionally did not pay $97,568 in state taxes, in line with prosecutors.

The president of the corporate, Susie Quesada, spoke at Hernandez’s sentencing listening to, lamenting how her former worker’s time on the firm was “tainted by deception and lies,” prosecutors mentioned in a information launch.

“It’s for our staff, who like our household, have been betrayed by her deception and thievery, that we applaud the myriad legislation enforcement professionals and this court docket for bringing her to justice,” Quesada mentioned, in line with the information launch.

As a part of the deal Hernandez can pay $410,198.90 in restitution.