Tracey Smith, 58, of Clairton, pleaded guilty this week to bank fraud in a scheme that ran across four employers and survived a federal prison sentence in the middle of it. The machine was her resume.
For seven years, prosecutors say, a Danbury software company's chief financial officer moved money from the company's accounts into her own and sent her CEO a weekly report that made the numbers behave. On June 4, 2026, she pleaded guilty.
A bookkeeper at a Metairie construction company is accused of bleeding the books for about $44,000. The machine stopped at a teller window, on a check she never should have tried to cash.
By Mark Tell · May 13
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