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Former bookkeeper sentenced to two years in prison, ordered to repay $2 million
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A Rio Rancho woman has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay over $2 million in restitution for wire fraud she committed against her former employer.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico announced 48-year-old Christina Joyner’s sentence Tuesday. She pleaded guilty to wire fraud charged on Sept. 2, 2022.
According to the news release, from July 2014 to September 2021, Joyner was working as a bookkeeper for Quanz Motor Company, which was doing business under the name Quanz Auto Body.
While in this position, Joyner defrauded over $2 million from the company by issuing checks to herself and coding them to give the appearance they were for legitimate business expenses, according to the news release.
To keep track of her need to modify entries in an accounting system to cover her actions, Joyner would leave herself a series of email reminders.
Joyner also used the company’s credit cards to make personal online purchases, retained money from cash transactions and created fraudulent pay stubs for her husband that were then used as proof of income to obtain loans, the news release said.
Upon her release from prison after her two-year sentence, Joyner will be subject to three years of supervised release and must complete 60 hours of community service in addition to paying back her restitution of $2 million.
