US EditionFormer Home Depot Employee Gets Prison Time over $4 Million Gift Card Theft
Felecia Ingram stole over 8,300 gift cards worth $4 million from Home Depot during COVID-19, funding a gambling habit; she received 37 months in federal prison.
- Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. sentenced Ingram to 37 months in federal prison and ordered her to pay $3,946,776 in restitution.
- Using facility and network access credentials, Ingram removed over 8,000 gift cards from the store support center during pandemic staffing shortages and created false orders to activate them.
- Investigators found she stole approximately 8,325 cards totaling $4,085,043 and prosecutors say she sold them on the black market to fund an extravagant gambling lifestyle.
- The U.S. Secret Service investigated with Home Depot's help, and Ingram pleaded guilty to access device fraud last week, prosecutors say.
- After ledger discrepancies surfaced, Home Depot gift card team traced the losses, exposing control weaknesses during COVID-19 staffing reductions, investigators say.
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Woman sentenced for stealing 8,000 Gift Cards from Home Depot
ATLANTA (WDEF) – A Georgia woman faces three years in prison for a major fraud against Home Depot. Prosecutors say Felecia Ingram stole more than $4 million in gift cards. She was a gift card sales associate for The Home Depot. During the pandemic, she stole over 8,000 gift cards. Then she used her store credentials to activate them by creating false orders. “While employed at The Home Depot, the defendant abused the trust placed in her and stol…
Georgia woman gets 3 years for stealing $4 million in Home Depot gift cards
A Covington woman who worked at Home Depot’s corporate headquarters has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for stealing over $4 million in gift cards from the company. What’s Happening: Felecia Ingram, 53, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. to three years and one month in […] The post Georgia woman gets 3 years for stealing $4 million in Home Depot gift cards appeared first on The Georgia Sun.
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