According to a Seattle P-I article, a federal grand jury indicted Maryvone Phanhsiry, a former employee of Cartus Corp. in Bellevue, on Wednesday on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
According to charging documents, Phanshiry, who managed debit cards for Microsoft’s internship program, “requested and processed applications for unauthorized debit cards from U.S. Bank, which were funded with Microsoft funds, in the name of Microsoft interns who were not entitled to the funds. When she received the debit cards in the interns’ names, she withdrew the funds at various ATM machines, thereby fraudulently depriving Microsoft of approximately $457,000.”
Phanshiry made over 550 unauthorized cash withdrawals according to charging documents.
She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment last Thursday.
The article states that aggravated identity theft carries a mandatory two-year prison sentence under state law, to be served consecutively with any other criminal punishment.
