COLUMBUS – Wendy Harper, 44, of Columbus, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amounts of $588,121.46 to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for embezzling HUD program funds from her employer, and $126,345.36 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for filing a false federal income tax return.
Carter M. Stewart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Brad Geary, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General, and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation announced the sentence handed down today by U.S. District Judge Gregory L. Frost...