Real Estate Paralegal Admits To Using Her Access To Law Firm/Employer's Closing/Escrow Account To Glom Almost $440K (And Then Failed To Pay Income Tax On Purloined Proceeds)

From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Wilmington, Delaware):

• [P]enni Enama, age 50, of Lewes, Delaware, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, [...] and one count of tax evasion, [...]. Enama, who will be sentenced on March 23, 2016, at 2 p.m. [...] faces a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and 3 years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment.
  
  According to statements made at the plea hearing and documents filed in court, Enama was employed by a law firm in Delaware, for approximately two years when, in May 2007, she began embezzling funds from the firm’s escrow account.
  
  Enama was a real estate paralegal, and she used her access to a closing escrow account to divert at least $439,824.40 to her personal use. Enama fabricated additional real estate closing parties in the firm’s records, and she used the additional funds to pay her personal credit cards and/or deposit the funds into her personal bank accounts. Enama did not declare the embezzled funds on her federal income tax returns for the 2011-2013 tax years.

Source: Delaware Woman Pleads Guilty to $430,000+ Embezzlement From Law Firm and Tax Fraud.