. A 52 year old Frederick, Maryland, woman pled guilty to wire fraud today after she embezzled payroll funds from a private, member-owned country club. She worked in the country club’s accounting and human resources departments.

According to her guilty plea, beginning in 2010, and continuing through September 2025, Williams used her position, and abused the trust of her employer, to steal payroll funds from the country club.  She used her access to the payroll system to create a fictitious employee — whose name corresponded with a former employee — made up a fictitious address, and used a deceased individual’s Social Security number to pull off the scam. Source: US Attorney District of Maryland