Delaware woman gets prison time for embezzlement
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A Delaware woman has been sentenced to a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $350,000 from Discover Financial Services in New Castle.
Forty-seven-year-old Kimberly Drummond of Middletown also was ordered to pay full restitution at her sentencing Wednesday.
Defense attorneys had argued for a sentence of probation, while prosecutors asked for more than two years behind bars.
Authorities say Drummond worked for Discover for almost 20 years in a check processing role and began falsifying entries in Discover’s books and records in 2008, resulting in duplicate checks that she deposited into her personal bank accounts.
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