Woman pleads guilty to stealing more than $300,000 from Pasco insurance company

A Land O’ Lakes girl has pleaded guilty to stealing a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} from an insurance company the place she labored, in accordance to Pasco County courtroom information.

Samantha Edson, 44, started working as a payroll supervisor in 2012 at All Insurance Underwriters Inc. in Land O’ Lakes. According to courtroom paperwork, between March 2018 and November 2019, Edson made checks out to herself from the company’s checking account and deposited them into her private accounts.

Court information don’t state what number of checks Edson cashed between March 2018 and November 2019, however they totaled $361,210.70.

“All Insurance Underwriters would like to hold comment as it sadness us all that a trusted work family member would do such a thing,” Kevin Licciardello, the company’s president, wrote in an e mail to the Times.

After Edson was terminated from the company, in accordance to courtroom information, she started working in a financing function for the Quest Corporation of America, a communication and advertising and marketing company positioned close to her earlier employer. While working at Quest, courtroom information state, Edson used an Adobe program to proceed altering checks and depositing them into her personal account.

She stole an extra $16,692 from All Insurance Underwriters in March and April 2020 whereas working at Quest, in accordance to courtroom information.

Court information present Edson pleaded guilty to a cost of scheme to defraud of $50,000 or more on Friday. A sentencing date has not been set but.

Pasco County courtroom information present Edson had a earlier, unrelated fraud cost in 2012. That cost was dropped after she accomplished a pretrial diversion program.