The Metro supervisor who pleaded guilty in April to stealing more than $560,000 from the transit authority is set to be sentenced today.
Marcia Anderson used her role as a supervisor in the Transit Sales Office to steal money from the cash drawers of the 10 to 15 workers she supervised over a six-year period, according to her plea. Anderson would cover up the disappearing cash by replacing it with canceled Metro checks that should have been destroyed by the WMATA treasury. She also repeatedly changed balance sheets to keep her actions hidden from accountants.
“Anderson’s behavior cannot be condoned or punished lightly,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Frederick Yette wrote in his plea to the court that Anderson serve more than three years in prison.
“Because of her supervisory position, defendant Anderson was in position to see a flaw in WMATA’s cash collection system, but instead of notifying her superiors so that flaw could be corrected, she exploited that flaw,” Yette wrote.
