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Post by librarylady on Apr 11, 2016 16:20:30 GMT
U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Va., sentenced Jennings, 44, of Winchester, Va., Friday to four and half years in federal prison and ordered her to pay $1,059,767 in restitution.
In December, she pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1 million to buy real estate and pay $600,000 in credit card bills that resulted from her ongoing shopping obsession.
She raided teller cash drawers, created fake loans, made unauthorized financial transactions, posted false entries in WCFCU’s accounting records and lied to NCUA examiners. She also admitted in court documents that she used shares in her 81-year-old mother’s account to secure 15 loan advances that totaled $248,000.
When questioned by an NCUA examiner about the size of the secured loans, Jennings lied that the board of directors had removed the secured loan limit for one account and provided the examiner with altered copies of the board of directors meeting minutes to support her lie, according to court documents.
As she was stealing funds from the credit union, she purchased nearly $600,000 worth of designer shoes, purses, jewelry and beauty products from QVC TV. Thousands of boxes containing all of this merchandise filled a floor at her home. She also had products shipped to her office to hide her shopping addiction from her fiancé. UPS workers called her the QVC queen.
Jennings characterized QVC as her friend.
“It’d help me if I was lonely,” she told her psychologist. ”Shopping relieved stress. I felt I needed to have extra. I didn’t want to run out. Everything seemed like a good deal, and it’d [QVC] come on, and I’d do it again …. getting stuff made me feel better – just the process of opening a box.”
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Post by lucyg on Apr 11, 2016 16:22:45 GMT
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Post by kimpossible on Apr 11, 2016 16:43:50 GMT
First thought...oh my gosh, where was the controls from her employer? (bet they are there now!) Second thought ...when is the sale? Surely they have to recoup some of the assets? What size shoe does she wear?  Third thought... very tragic and not so uncommon |
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Post by kernriver on Apr 11, 2016 18:15:47 GMT
 The woman is clealy insane. Nutso. Off her rocker. now if you'll excuse me I have to go and check on my multiple purse orders from QVC's latest 'everything's on easy pay' Dooney and Bourke extravaganza! three very stressful days + 2 very nice purses = back to happy
 I wear mostly black and grey so I love a colorful lively purse!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 18:19:00 GMT
The woman is clealy insane. Nutso. Off her rocker. now if you'll excuse me I have to go and check on my multiple purse orders from QVC's latest 'everything's on easy pay' Dooney and Bourke extravaganza!I thank my lucky stars that I knew nothing about this!!! |
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Post by papersilly on Apr 11, 2016 18:21:07 GMT
when I read your thread title, I thought you were talking about my MIL. it's either Home Shopping Network or As-Seen-On-TV.
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Post by iluvpink on Apr 11, 2016 18:27:52 GMT
I just don't get how people can embezzle money and think it won't get noticed. But we had a guy where I live recently turn himself in (he was about to get caught) for embezzling from the credit union where he worked. He'd been doing it for years and it was around 20 million. Funny thing was that many in our town were suspicious of his lifestyle all along.
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Post by maryland on Apr 11, 2016 18:34:57 GMT
I am glad she was caught and sentenced! We hear of people embezzling way to often in the news.
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Post by marianne on Apr 11, 2016 18:36:30 GMT
I wouldn't say I was addicted, but I have a jewelery etagere with quite a bit of QVC jewelry (that I hardly wear anymore)... and an entire set of T-Fal (that gets used daily and is showing its age)... and a collection of porcelain dolls (that I'm looking to dispose of)... and several sets of Northern Night flannel sheets (that are wearing thin) and various and sundry other miscellaneous items. I also hardly ever watch QVC anymore. I think I'm over it.  |
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Post by amom23 on Apr 11, 2016 19:24:36 GMT
That woman clearly has an addiction/shopping problem. QVC was just her drug of choice.
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Post by scrapaddie on Apr 11, 2016 23:03:06 GMT
Good thing I shop on create and craft!! Seriously, I liove to online shop.... But I do have a budget!!
I went to a garage sale where there were multiple boxes of the sabe or similar item, most unopened! Lots of craft stuff that I am still using!!
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Post by MsKnit on Apr 11, 2016 23:59:18 GMT
The woman is clealy insane. Nutso. Off her rocker. now if you'll excuse me I have to go and check on my multiple purse orders from QVC's latest 'everything's on easy pay' Dooney and Bourke extravaganza! three very stressful days + 2 very nice purses = back to happy
I wear mostly black and grey so I love a colorful lively purse!
The first one looks like a bag I have. It's a great bag! |
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Post by librarylady on Apr 13, 2016 14:01:08 GMT
My sister was hired as CEO at a credit union to clean up after a woman who could match this story.
When QVC learned that embezzled funds were used, they were able to send some things back to QVC and get refunds. It was shocking how much the woman had spent --and the office was filled with unopened boxes. Since the woman with the problem was the CEO, she had final approval on spending.
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Post by bosoxbeth on Apr 13, 2016 14:03:10 GMT
Wow. Truly sad case. Major hoarder.
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Post by jassy on Apr 13, 2016 14:53:06 GMT
My husband is a UPS driver and the stories he can tell.
He has one woman on his route that he finally called the city on (anonymously). He said he felt like every box he delivered could be the one that finally killed her. Her garage is filled TOP TO BOTTOM with unopened QVC boxes (he suspects much of the house is too). She has a small little goat path through it to come meet him. He always wonders - in addition to why the hoarding - is how on earth are the hoarders paying for the stuff? He has at least a dozen regulars on his route that seem as nearly as bad.
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Post by scrappyesq on Apr 13, 2016 17:55:19 GMT
The woman is clealy insane. Nutso. Off her rocker. now if you'll excuse me I have to go and check on my multiple purse orders from QVC's latest 'everything's on easy pay' Dooney and Bourke extravaganza! three very stressful days + 2 very nice purses = back to happy
I wear mostly black and grey so I love a colorful lively purse!
Everything is on easy pay will kill you.
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Post by mommythree on Apr 14, 2016 1:22:35 GMT
I worked as a customer service rep for QVC for eight years... there were woman who would order 15x's a day...they would have you process 5 or 6 different credit cards, to get an authorization. Because it was a toll-free number, we were more like a psychiatrist phone center, they would tell you their whole life story, most were just lonely women, widows, just wanting someone to talk to. It was very sad sometimes.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Apr 14, 2016 3:23:11 GMT
I wouldn't say I was addicted, but I have a jewelery etagere with quite a bit of QVC jewelry (that I hardly wear anymore)... and an entire set of T-Fal (that gets used daily and is showing its age)... and a collection of porcelain dolls (that I'm looking to dispose of)... and several sets of Northern Night flannel sheets (that are wearing thin) and various and sundry other miscellaneous items. I also hardly ever watch QVC anymore. I think I'm over it. They CUT ME OFF! They stopped shipping to Canada a few years ago and I was heartbroken! Now I have since adjusted since the Canadian dollar sucks and I need to shop in Canada. I do know what having QVC for a BFF is like! Loved them!!! |
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Post by Rainbow on Apr 14, 2016 3:52:50 GMT
I have a friend who is addicted to QVC shopping. She watches the channel all day long and orders thing after thing after thing. She's always broke.
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Post by Lexica on Apr 14, 2016 4:04:47 GMT
That is so very sad. I don't understand how she could have $600,000 in credit card debt though. Who has credit limits that high on credit cards? Or was it charged to the max and paid off each month with stolen money, totaling that $600,000 in the end? I'm wondering if they added in the loans she took too. How sad that QVC was her friend. She is more sick than an outright thief in a way. She deserves jail time, and I am glad to see the restitution in there and hope she returns all that unopened merchandise, but I really hope she gets emotional help.
My renter questioned my frequent Amazon boxes until I showed him what was in the two delivered that day. Some special instant glue for a project, a stainless steel little fish net that was small enough to scoop the hair off the water of the electric cat waterfall thing, and some dehydrated chicken heart dog treats. They just happened to put them in very big boxes for the size of the item. He won't buy on line due to his fear of identity theft, and he had not heard of Amazon Prime. It is easier for me to order on line than get out to the store most days. And now that I am on a fixed income from disability, I can't afford to become addicted to anything.
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Post by freecharlie on Apr 14, 2016 4:04:49 GMT
I've never shopped at qvc
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Post by pjaye on Apr 14, 2016 4:25:04 GMT
I just don't get how people can embezzle money and think it won't get noticed. But we had a guy where I live recently turn himself in (he was about to get caught) for embezzling from the credit union where he worked. He'd been doing it for years and it was around 20 millionI am always shocked how long it takes to get noticed. I read a story once about a woman in banking who embezzled around 2 million and she left the country to go live with her fiancé on the other side of the world. She was sure she'd be caught so she had no contact with her family. Finally the relationship broke up and she missed her family so much, she flew back into the country and made a full confession - and they hadn't even realised the money was missing yet! Another Australian woman managed to steal $45 Million over 5 years. I just don't really understand how it goes unnoticed for so long. I have a friend who used to be a bank teller and from what he told me about their procedures, it seemed like they'd notice if even $1 was missing. In his branch one time they were $500 short and all hell broke loose, everyone had to stay back, bags were checked, everyone had private meeting with the boss etc. Then you hear about people stealing hundreds of thousands or millions over many years...hard to comprehend how that can happen. |
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