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Former Marriott Director of Finance Sentenced to 41 Months for Wire Fraud Involving Multi-Million Dollar Theft
SHANNON HARP, age 38, a former resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey to serve forty-one (41) months in federal prison for wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
In addition, HARP was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,023,225.00 to Marriott, a $100 special assessment and to serve three (3) years' supervised release following imprisonment during which time she will be under federal supervision and risk additional imprisonment should she violate any terms of the release.
According to court documents, HARP was employed as an Assistant Controller and Director of Finance for Marriott in New Orleans. On August 4, 2009, HARP pled guilty admitting that between 2003 and 2006, she executed a scheme in which she stole the money which was supposed to be used to make change at bars, shops and restaurants in the Marriott hotels in which she worked. As part of the scheme, HARP admitted that she executed internal forms which caused small denominations of currency in a Marriott account at a local bank to be delivered by armored car to the hotel. HARP converted the money to her own personal use, instead of it being used to make change. She further admitted that she made fraudulent entries into the Marriott’s computerized accounting system indicating that money had been deposited back into Marriott accounts in an attempt to conceal the scheme. During the three-year scheme, HARP stole over $3 million.
The case was investigated by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Carter K. D. Guice, Jr. of the Financial and Computer Crime Unit.
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