Texas woman, former NRG Energy employee defrauds company out of over $600,000
April 20th, 2010 - 2:13 am ICT by BNO NewsHOUSTON, TEXAS (BNO NEWS) – A Texas woman pleaded guilty to defraud her employer out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said Monday.
Dorothy J. Samuel-Harris, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas, while employed at NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) in Houston, provided her personal bank account to receive payments designated for NRG, and made several other transactions that resulted in the company’s loss of $674,332.26.
Samuel-Harris admitted to have submitted an e-mail from her computer on April 17, 2008, to another NRG employee in New Jersey to change the bank account information for a vendor of NRG to a bank account owned by Samuel-Harris.
This caused NRG to send payments intended for that vendor to Samuel-Harris’ bank account instead. She also admitted to changing the bank account information for another NRG vendor so that payments from NRG intended for that vendor also went into her bank account.
Samuel-Harris pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, and she is scheduled to be sentenced on July 20, 2010, at 9:45 a.m. before Judge Hittner.
A conviction for wire fraud carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000.
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