Dive Summary:
- Former VP of product development for Tiffany & Co. has pled guilty in U.S. fedral court to stealing over $2.1 million in jewelry from the company.
- Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun has agreed to forfeit over $2 million and make restitution payments totaling over $2.2 million as part of a plea agreement.
- Lederhaas-Okun is facing one count of transporting stolen goods across state lines and could face a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. “Diamonds are forever but stolen diamonds are not,” stated U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
From the article:
To conceal her theft, Lederhaas-Okun made repeated false statements to Tiffany. For example, after her termination in February 2013, she told the luxury jeweler that she had recently checked out jewelry to create a PowerPoint presentation for her supervisor, and that a draft of the presentation could be found on her office computer.
