KANSAS CITY, Mo. - There's an argument about how much, but no dispute that a woman embezzled thousands of dollars from her employer.
The scheme began in December 2004 when Shanna M. Hutchens worked at a Sugar Creek hauling company.
Hutchens wrote company checks to herself or her husband and forged the business owner's signatures, according to news release today from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas City.
Hutchens would cash the checks or deposit them in a bank account.
She also stole money from the business using cashier's checks.
The crimes went on for nearly four years.
Investigators say Hutchens took at least $760,000 from the business, but that number is in dispute.
That issue will be decided at her sentencing.
Hutchens faces up to 30 years in federal prison without parole and a fine of up to $1 million.
