While most people embezzle money to get ahead in life, one woman apparently did it to get a little behind.
A Virginia bride was arrested for allegedly embezzling over $93,000 from the company she worked at to pay for her big day — including a $7,000 butt lift!
According to the Stafford Sheriff’s Office, Vanessa Cline (above) was cuffed on Wednesday after the owner of No Limits Construction was contacted by his credit card company “informing him that one of his accounts was going to be closed due to lack of payment.”
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After the owner started looking into his accounts, he eventually learned that Cline, his bookkeeper, had allegedly made a staggering amount of unauthorized purchases on the company card for her upcoming wedding — including a wedding dress for $2,000 and a wedding planner for $25,000.
But she didn’t stop there: the 32-year-old also allegedly used the company card to pay for an expensive butt lift by Elite Plastic Surgery in Miami, Florida.
In addition to the dress and posterior touch up, Cline is said to have purchased clothing, perfume, furniture, plane tickets, and an ATV. (That’s a lot of somethings new!) She allegedly forged five checks totaling nearly $10,000.
Interestingly enough, the company has an alleged history of hiring bad bookkeepers. Per the news release, Cline was hired as the company’s replacement bookkeeper after her predecessor pleaded guilty to embezzling at least $150,000 between January 2016 and January 2018.
The blushing bride was charged with five counts of embezzlement, five counts of forgery, and five counts of uttering following her arrest. She was incarcerated at Rappahannock Regional jail on an $8,000 bond.
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This case of something borrowed, something embezzled is definitely one of the more colorful embezzlement cases we’ve covered in a while — but it still pales in comparison to a case we reported back in December, where two nuns were accused of stealing $500,000 from the Catholic school they worked at.
As we reported at the time, St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California confirmed that Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang had been “involved in the personal use of a substantial amount of school funds” they allegedly used to fund gambling trips to Las Vegas.
The school said it would not pursue criminal charges against the Sisters, who both retired from the institution earlier in 2018, over the elaborate scheme that dated back at least 10 years.
What’s more unholy, Perezious readers: stealing money to fund a gambling trip to Sin City or stealing money to lift one’s derriere?
[Image via Stafford County Sheriff’s Office]
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