Wethersfield Woman Gets 2 Years in $1.7M Payroll Doctoring Case

WETHERSFIELD, CT — A Local woman has been sentenced for her role in doctoring a company's payroll account for her benefit to the tune of seven figures, according to a leading prosecutor.

Deirdre M. Daly, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that Penny Roy, 46, of Wethersfield, was sentenced on Thursday by Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for stealing $1.7 million from her former employer, a Connecticut-based computer software company.

Roy also failed to pay taxes on the stolen funds, Daly said.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Roy used her position as the software company’s payroll manager to insert her own bank account information into the profiles of other employees.

She then processed fraudulent expense reimbursements and payroll payments in other employees’ names with the payments flowing into her own bank account, Daly said.

In total, ROY stole $1.7 million and was fired after the company discovered her fake payments, Daly said.

To hide her theft, Roy failed to declare the stolen money on her tax returns, depriving the Internal Revenue Service of more that $600,000 in tax revenues, Daly said.

As part of her sentence, Roy was ordered to make full restitution to the software company and the Internal Revenue Service.

On Aug. 21, 2015, Roy pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax charges.

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