Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANGIE CAMBRE, age 43, of Laplace, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with wire fraud.
U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced CAMBRE to 33 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Additionally, CAMBRE was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $940,336.24.
According to court documents, CAMBRE was hired in August 2011 to be the accountant and bookkeeper for a commercial printing company headquartered in New Orleans that specializes in printing materials, such as flyers and manuals, geared toward the automotive industry ("Company A"). Between November 2011 and June 2016, CAMBRE embezzled approximately $940,336.24 from Company A in a series of approximately 3,300 individual transactions, without Company A’s knowledge or authorization. CAMBRE did so by causing payments to be sent from one of Company A’s bank accounts to accounts under her control and to repay debts due and owing related to her personal use. To disguise her behavior and to make the fraudulent, unauthorized withdrawals appear legitimate, CAMBRE recorded the transactions in Company’s A’s ledger as having been legitimate expenditures made payable to various corporate entities with whom Company A had business relationships.
Acting U.S. Attorney Evans praised the work of the United States Secret Service in investigating this matter. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jordan Ginsberg was in charge of the prosecution.
--DOJ Eastern District of Louisiana