Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tameka Bennett-Quinn has pleaded guilty to charges of altering customer payment checks and depositing the money into her own accounts while working for GC Services, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office Thursday.
Prosecutors gave the following account of the case:
- According to court documents, Tameka Bennett-Quinn was employed as a supervisor with GC Services in St. Charles County from 1999 to November 2009. GC Services is a contractor for MCI/Verizon to process customer payments. As part of her duties, Bennett-Quinn collected these customer checks and distributed them to her subordinates for processing and routing to the appropriate bank. Between May and November 2009, Bennett-Quinn began stealing customer checks, altering them and depositing the altered checks into her own bank accounts. She would alter the name of the intended payee so that the checks would appear to have been made payable to her. In order to conceal her fraudulent conduct, Bennett-Quinn would access a computerized database of GC Services and provide unauthorized promotional credits to the accounts of customers whose checks she stole and altered so that it appeared the payments had been made. Between May and November 2009, she stole and altered more than one hundred customer checks and deposited them into her own accounts.
Bennett-Quinn, 33, of Wentzville, pleaded guilty to four felony counts of making forged securities before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. Sentencing has been set for October 27.
Each count of forged securities carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000.
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