A Cashier Somehow Stole $9.5 Million From Her Workplace

Cynthia Mills was a former cashier and treasure specialist working for Matthews International Corporation, a company that specializes in cemetery products, ornate engravings and manufacturing cast bronze plaques for memorials and monuments.

According to Federal prosecutors in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania claim, Mills stole $9.5 million from the company between 1999 and 2015.

With $9.5 million, it’s no wonder that Mills had a lavish lifestyle wth furs, homes, cars, boats, and luxury handbags.
According to the court documents, some of the money bought a 47-foot yacht, three Mercedes Benz cars and Harley Davidson motorcycles.

So how did she manage to pull this off? Paperwork filed in federal court revealed that Instead of depositing checks payable to the company into the company’s bank account, she allegedly cashed company checks, then used wire transfers to put company money into accounts in her name, or her husband’s name.

Mills is being charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.

Her defense attorney Phillip DiLucente told CNN, “She’s been cooperating continuously with the authorities and will continue to cooperate with them for anything and everything they ask of her.”

According to DiLucente, Mills has willingly relinquished every asset of any value for the purpose of having restitution in the case.

She is expected to enter a guilty plea at a hearing on March 15.