Ex-staffer pleads guilty to stealing over $22k from congresswoman
A former aide to Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur pleaded guilty to stealing about $23,000 from teh congresswoman’s bank account to pay off her own credit card debt.Courtney Hruska admitted to felony wire fraud in a plea deal with prosecutors, acknowledging she used Kaptur’s bank account information on about 10 occasions between August 19, 2023, and July 30, 2024. Kaptur had provided and entrusted Hruska with the victim’s personal credit card and bank account details and authorized purchases as part of her duties.Hruska, who spent years in Kaptur’s office before leaving in 2022 to work for the Department of Agriculture, faces up to 20 years in prison, with sentencing set for June 23 before U.S.District Judge leonie Brinkema. As part of the plea, she must repay the full amount stolen, surrender her passport, and refrain from possessing weapons.
Former staffer pleads guilty to stealing over $22,000 from congresswoman
A former aide to a sitting Democratic congresswoman on Tuesday pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from the Ohio lawmaker.
Courtney Hruska, a former staffer to Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), admitted to committing felony wire fraud and stealing nearly $23,000 from her former boss’s bank account to pay off credit card debt, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia. Hruska faces up to 20 years in prison and is set to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on June 23.
Hruska spent years in Kaptur’s office, working her way up until leaving the office in 2022 to work for the Department of Agriculture, according to court filings. Kaptur “provided and entrusted the defendant with Victim’s personal credit card and bank account information” and authorized her to “make specific purchases” as part of her position, documents said, a freedom which Hruska admitted in a plea deal to abusing for her personal benefit.
Between Aug. 19, 2023, and July 30, 2024, Hruska used Kaptur’s bank account information to pay off her card bills on 10 separate occasions, according to the Justice Department.
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“Because more than a year had lapsed between Hruska’s first fraudulent transaction and the member’s discovery of the theft, the member recovered less than 9% of the stolen funds in fraud compensation,” the DOJ said.
Prosecutors said Hruska stole at least $22,865.07. The former aide must pay the entire amount stolen, surrender her passport, and refrain from possessing a gun, destructive device, or other weapon, in accordance with her plea deal.
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