Butler County Woman Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for False Tax Filings and Wire Fraud

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

A Connoquenessing woman has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for filing false tax returns and wire fraud.

58-year-old Constance Stobert was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court following an investigation that showed that Stobert knowingly embezzled over $500,000 in false tax returns between 2016 and 2019.

She also was found to have stolen over $1.6 million dollars in assets from Mechanical Operations Company, where she had worked as a controller from 1994 until 2021. The money stolen from MOC was used to make personal credit card payments and to withdraw cash at casino ATMs in Las Vegas and Pittsburgh.

The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab.