A Walkersville, Maryland woman convicted of embezzling more than $270,000 from a Silver Spring nonprofit was sentenced Monday to 27 months in federal prison for wire fraud.
Federal prosecutors said Monica Kendrick, 47, started taking the money shortly after she was hired as the office and finance administrator at the nonprofit, which was not named in court documents. Federal prosecutors said the nonprofit acted as a trade association for the herbal products industry.
Kendrick wrote more than 80 unauthorized checks from the nonprofit and deposited them into a bank account. She later withdrew the money as cash, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office. Kendrick was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.
Kendrick was ordered to pay $271,921.06 in restitution, which was the total amount investigators determined the nonprofit lost as a result of her scheme. She was also sentenced to three years of parole after she is released from prison.
