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Date Published
February 09, 2014
News Type
Article
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nbc4i.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus woman pleaded guilty to embezzling HUD program funds, and filing a false income tax return Thursday.

Wendy Harper, 44, Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to embezzling HUD program funds from her employer, Harvest Management Group, Inc, which manages more than 900 units for elderly and disabled people who qualify for HUD assistance. She also pleaded guilty to filing a false income tax return.

According to court documents, Harper was responsible for managing payroll and payment functions for the agency. Harper manipulated the system to give herself unauthorized salary increases and unauthorized mileage reimbursements between 2009 and 2012.

Testimony presented during the plea hearing revealed that, according to calculations made by criminal investigators in this case, Harper would have had to have driven more than 1,200,000 miles in order for the mileage reimbursements to have been legitimate...