Alicia Raynor, 44, of Westfield, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison and 18 months home detention and was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $799,625.27. While working as the business manager for Compassion at Home, Inc., Raynor opened an account with Intuit, Inc., a payroll and payment processing service located outside the state of New York, and used the accounting software package Quickbooks to make payments into the Intuit account. Raynor then diverted money from Compassion at Home’s bank accounts to accounts that she controlled. In order to avoid detection, Raynor disguised Quickbook entries to make it appear that the payments were to Bank of America, Capital One, or Compassion at Home employees. Between August 2015 and June 2016, Raynor fraudulently diverted approximately $238,871.58 from the company’s bank account.
