HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former worker of a West Virginia nonprofit group has been sentenced to seven years in jail for tens of millions of {dollars} in thefts.
Ruth Marie Phillips, 69, of Chesapeake, Ohio, was sentenced Monday in federal courtroom in Huntington.
Phillips admitted in September that she stole funding from the River Valley Baby Growth Companies in Huntington, which supplies packages and companies to youngsters and households.
Phillips was director of enterprise and finance on the group for greater than 30 years and was accountable for all monetary operations, in keeping with courtroom data.
The group obtained greater than $7 million in federal funding from July 2016 to June 2017 and Phillips used her place of belief and authority to steal practically $1 million in that point span, prosecutors mentioned. She additionally admitted to stealing greater than $4.7 million from the group from December 2013 by way of August 2020.
Phillips has agreed to forfeit tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} from the sale of properties, airplanes and several other automobiles. The total quantity of restitution can be decided at a listening to in April.
