Prosecutors said Judith Fernandez-Adelugba, 45, of Stevenson Ranch, schemed with her father and the owner of an outside firm to steal the money.
LOS ANGELES — The former human resources manager at a Santa Clarita race car design and development firm was sentenced Friday to more than four years behind bars for scheming to defraud her then-employer out of more than $1.7 million earmarked for diversity recruitment.
At the hearing in downtown Los Angeles, the judge said Fernandez-Adelugba was “driven by pure greed” and that her criminal conduct had left her former boss “shaken to the core.”As the design company’s chief human resources manager, she was responsible for diversity recruitment, which included implementing and managing programs to encourage persons from diverse gender, racial, ethnic and other backgrounds to apply for jobs with her employer.
From March 2015 until her resignation in February 2018, Fernandez-Adelugba, her father and Wilkison used BSS and ETC to embezzle design company funds — money they used for their own personal enrichment. Participants in the scheme submitted fake invoices issued by BSS and ETC that requested payment for diversity recruitment-related services purportedly performed.
After the firm issued payments on the bogus bills, Fernandez-Adelugba and her co-schemers used their illicit gains for personal expenditures such as trips to Las Vegas, credit card bills and dining at restaurants. She also paid kickbacks to her co-schemers and kept more than $1.1 million of the scheme’s ill-gotten gains, which she used for her personal benefit.
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