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Northern District of Texas

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WOMAN SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON
FOR EMBEZZLING FROM EMPLOYER

United States Attorney Richard B. Roper announced that Christina Hill Gomez was sentenced today in Amarillo, Texas, to 30 months imprisonment by United States District Judge Mary Lou Robinson. Gomez pled guilty in September to one count of embezzlement from a federally funded program. Judge Robinson also ordered Gomez to pay $144,419 restitution and ordered her to file all outstanding tax returns. She was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on January 8, 2007 to begin serving her prison sentence.

Christina Hill Gomez, age 33, was employed at Gilvin-Terrill, Ltd.,in Claude, Texas, as a secretary/treasurer. Gilvin-Terrill, Ltd. is a highway construction contractor that had numerous large contracts with the Texas Department of Transportation to construct and repair roads and highways and received federal assistance through the Texas Department of Transportation.

Gomez admitted that from January 2004 to November 2005, she embezzled approximately $113,419 from Gilvin-Terrill. She manipulated the electronically transmitted payroll accounts by making duplicates of additions to the regular amount of salary she was to be paid and then transmitting additional amounts to her own payroll account. She concealed the overpayments by charging them to the company as supplies, equipment and other expenses.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Christy L. Drake of the Amarillo, Texas, United States Attorney’s Office.

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