$270K Theft from Silver Spring Non-profit Earns Woman Prison Term

SILVER SPRING, MD — A finance administrator for a nonprofit agency in Silver Spring has been sentenced to about two years in prison for embezzling $271,000 from her employer.

On Monday, a federal judge sentenced Monica Kendrick, 47, of Walkersville, to 27 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud. Kendrick was also ordered to pay restitution of $271,921.06, the total amount stolen.

The United States Attorney for the District of Maryland says that in May 2014, Kendrick was hired as the office and finance administrator for the non-profit organization, which acted as a trade association for the herbal products industry. Almost immediately after being hired, Kendrick began stealing money from the company, prosecutors said.

From May 2014 to November 2015, Kendrick wrote more than 80 unauthorized checks from the company and deposited the fraudulent checks into a bank account. She then withdrew the illicit proceeds from the account.

The case was investigated in connection with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. For more information on the task force, visit www.StopFraud.gov.