A Dover woman who worked for a company that distributes Bibles faces more than two dozen charges.
Rasheeda Overton, 38, was charged in an indictment unsealed with 23 counts of wire fraud and 4 counts of aggravated identity theft, according to Philadelphia United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
According to the indictment, Overton was a payroll manager of a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization that translates, publishes, and distributes copies of the Bible.
Overton allegedly altered the bank account information of former employees who had been on file with the company. In that way, any future payments to the former employees would be diverted into bank accounts that she controlled.
Overton then allegedly arranged for her employer to pay more than $100,000 in wages to those former employees, all of which wound up in her bank accounts.
If convicted of all charges, the defendant faces a possible sentence of two years’ imprisonment, and a statutory maximum sentence of 468 years in prison, a $6.75 million fine and three years supervised release.
The case was investigated by the FBI.
