A former amazon worker gets sentenced to 16 years after stealing $9.4m – she got caught after buying a Lamborghini & Tesla.
The 32-year-old had $2.7 million of her stolen funds scattered across several bank accounts. She also purchases a $1 million home in Smyrna and a fleet of luxury automobiles — including “a 2019 Lamborghini Urus, a 2021 Dodge Durango, a 2022 Tesla Model X, a 2018 Porsche Panamera and a Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle.” The government ultimately seized or forfeited the stolen money and fraudulently purchased goods.
Worthan is one of seven fellow employees that were charged. Three of the accused — Laquettia Blanchard, Demetrius Hines and JaQuan Frazier — have already pled guilty to related offenses.
The remaining parties — Brittany Hudson, Jamar L. James, Sr. and Darrel J. Burgo — all have combinations of charges attached to their names.
An Amazon manager who masterminded an audacious $10 million fraud that allowed her to buy a Lamborghini and a mansion — where she lived with her co-conspirator girlfriend — is riding off to the Big House.
Kayricka Wortham, 32, an operations manager at the e-commerce giant’s Atlanta warehouse, was sentenced to 16 years in a federal prison for orchestrating the plot involving six others that bilked the e-commerce giant out of $9.4 million, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
The 32-year-old ran her multi-million scheme from August 2020 to March 2022 in a Smyrna-based Amazon warehouse. As an operations manager, the former employee held authority regarding the approval and payments of new and established warehouse vendors. She took advantage of that status and involved other Amazon employees, knowingly and unknowingly, in her scheme.
“Once the information was entered, Wortham approved the fake vendors, enabling them to submit invoices. Wortham and co-conspirators then submitted fictitious invoices to Amazon, falsely representing that the vendors had provided goods and services to Amazon. Wortham approved the invoices, causing Amazon to transfer millions in fraudulent proceeds to bank accounts controlled by her and her co-conspirators.”
She used the stolen money to fund an extravagant lifestyle for herself and her 37-year-old lover Brittany Hudson, the DOJ said.
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, Ga., an Atlanta suburb near the Amazon warehouse where Wortham worked.
Wortham, who worked at the Amazon facility from about August 2020 to March 2022, was charged with wire fraud last September and pleaded guilty in November.
She “abused her position of trust at Amazon,” the DOJ said.
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