A Virginia woman has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for stealing $300,000 from the woman’s clinic she worked at, going as far as to create her own collection agency, but not remit any of the funds collected back to her workplace.
Evelyn Gregory was facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to the money laundering scam back in June. She must also repay more than $300,000 as part of her sentence.
What started out as using the corporate credit card for her own personal expenses graduated into Gregory creating her own collection agency — AMC Collections — and having past-due accounts from the clinic placed with the agency. When funds were recovered by the agency, they were not remitted back to the clinic. But to cover her tracks, Gregory would remove the unpaid debts from the clinic’s books to make it look like the debts had been paid. The agency recovered more than $40,000 that Gregory and her son kept to fund vacations and pay bills, including a cruise to the Bahamas. Gregory was the medical facility’s office manager.
Gregory’s scam lasted more than seven years before it was uncovered.
