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Kayricka Wortham thought Amazon was her own personal gold mine. She casually extracted almost $10 million while working as an operations manager at the online retailer’s Atlanta warehouse. All of her ill-gotten assets have been handed back to the company but she won’t miss them that much. She won’t be needing the Porsche, Tesla or Lamborghini while in prison for the next 16 years and won’t need the mansion either.
Amazon embezzled out of millions
Skimming millions from “e-commerce giant” Amazon doesn’t sit well with the Just Us Department. Especially when the DOJ is looking for a case to show they’re worth keeping around. They have to prove that they’re doing something positive in the wake of weaponization and bias scandals.
The DOJ announced on July 6 that Kayricka Wortham will probably have a new girlfriend soon, unless her current one, Brittany Hudson, ends up as her cellmate. The 32-year-old “mastermind” of the scheme “submitted false invoices for fake vendors and redirected $9.4 million in funds to herself and six co-conspirators.”
Wortham began working for Amazon in August of 2020. In January of 2022, she put her “brazen scheme” into action and left the company two months later, in March. The feds didn’t take long to catch up with her and she was arrested and charged with wire fraud by September.
A former manager at an Amazon warehouse Kayricka Wortham, has been charged for stealing $9.4M. The fraud became suspicious because she bought a mansion up the street from the warehouse & drove to work in a Lamborghini. pic.twitter.com/ph2e8iku27
— Black Millionaires ® (@Blackmillions_) July 7, 2023
She subsequently took a deal and pleaded guilty in November. Suddenly, the DOJ is announcing her sentence, to distract from the one Hunter Biden didn’t get.
She “abused her position of trust at Amazon,” the DOJ declares. All to “fund an extravagant lifestyle for herself and her 37-year-old girlfriend, Brittany Hudson.” Joe Biden can abuse his position of trust any time he wants but Wortham isn’t high enough on the Democrat food chain to rate any protection.
Once she learned how easy it was to siphon money from the accounts, “the couple bought a fleet of luxury cars — including a Tesla, a Porsche and a Lamborghini — as well as a $1 million home in Smyrna, Georgia.” That’s a suburb of Atlanta near the company warehouse they both worked at.
They needed help
The girls were smart enough to realize they would need some help making the money vanish without setting off accounting alarms so they recruited Demetrius Hines, “who worked in loss prevention for Amazon.”
They also convinced “a human resources assistant at the company, Laquettia Blanchard,” to go along with the heist. Apparently, Hines and Blanchard “provided Wortham with names and Social Security numbers that were used to falsify vendor accounts.”
Wortham then created some fake invoices naming fictitious vendors, submitted and approved them. When the checks came in she then “redirected the funds to her personal accounts.”
Kayricka Wortham, a former Amazon operations manager, ran a scheme by which $9.4 million was stolen from the company, prosecutors said. She was sentenced to 16 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $9.4 million in restitution. https://t.co/RYt2x1qYsr
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 7, 2023
Amazon investigators total it up to $9.4 million and change. In order to get the personal information they needed, Hines bought it from JaQuan Frazier, “who also pleaded guilty.”
Some of the invoices were cooked up by “Jamar L. James, an operations manager at another Georgia-based Amazon location in Duluth.” James also “continued to approve fake invoices on behalf of Amazon even after Wortham left the company in March 2022.”
The remaining defendant, Darrel J. Burgo also sold “people’s personal information to Wortham.” His charges are still pending. The “feds seized the cars and home that Wortham bought with the stolen money, which were valued at about $2.7 million.“
