(Richmond, VA) - Kathryn Lynn Feuer, age 41, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was sentenced today to a total of five years of imprisonment for embezzling over $800,000 from two different employers. Chief Judge James R. Spencer sentenced Feuer to three years' imprisonment for one count of bank fraud and to a consecutive term of imprisonment of two years for aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered her to pay $851,656 in restitution. The sentence was announced by Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Feuer was employed by two local businesses to perform accounting services. She has admitted to devising a scheme to defraud those employers by stealing their business checks and forging signatures. She made the checks payable to credit cards she maintained and used for cash advances and personal expenditures. Feuer concealed her activity by making fraudulent entries into the accounting systems for both companies, falsely indicating that the checks were payable to legitimate payees. She misappropriated a total of 320 checks from the victim businesses over the course of an eight-year time period.
Upon her federal arrest in August 2007, Feuer's assets were frozen by Temporary Restraining Order. As part of the sentence imposed today, Judge Spencer entered a restitution order liquidating several bank accounts maintained by Feuer that were used to deposit stolen funds.

The case was investigated by the United States Secret Service and the Chesterfield County Police Department as members of the Metro-Richmond Identity Theft Task Force. Other member agencies include: the Postal Inspection Service; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State; Richmond Police Department; and Henrico County Division of Police. Prosecutions for the Task Force are handled by the United States Attorney's Office and the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia. For more information on the Task Force, including assistance for victims of identity theft, visit: www.richmondIDtheft.com.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Laura Colombell Marshall.