A New Mexico couple has been sentenced to prison for embezzling $11 million over a decade from their guardianship and financial services firm. The couple siphoned payments to clients from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Social Security Administration and used the funds to buy RVs, homes, luxury vacations, and to pay over $4 million in AmEx charges. The authorities began an investigation when employees noticed funds were missing from client accounts. The couple fled before their sentencing because they “wanted to get away one last time before they went to prison,” but were located in Oklahoma and arrested, and handed harsher prison sentences. (www.abqjournal.com/2409934/founder-of-guardianship-firms-gets-47-years-in-federal-prison.html)
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