A former bookkeeper for a landscaping company pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.3 million from his employer.
Christopher Cunningham, who fled to Spain in 2010 to avoid facing criminal chages in Montgomery County, was extradited back to the United States earlier this year. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in D.C. to transportion of money taken by fraud.
Prosecutors say Cunningham, 44, faces three to nearly four years in prison at his sentencing Jan. 13.
Cunningham used the company’s computerized bookkeeping system to write checks to himself or his own creditors, prosecutors said. He altered the company’s bank statements to disguise the fact that he wrote checks to himself and wrote checks to others to pay for his debts.
