OKLAHOMA CITY – A Tuttle woman has pleaded guilty for stealing over $1.2 million through wire fraud. In addition to the embezzlement charge, Christa Dawn Jackson also pleaded guilty to signing a false federal income tax return and admitted that she owes the IRS more than $200,000. Jackson worked as an office manager at All Points Pipe Service Inc., where she had access to company checks and accounting systems. The plea agreement requires her to pay restitution to AllPoints Pipe Service in the amount of $1,254,064.09 and to the IRS in the amount of $223,808 and provides for a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of the embezzlement.
From February 2010 to June 2017, Jackson made the company checks out to herself and her husband and forged the signature of the company’s owner on those checks. She also initiated electronic transfers from company bank accounts to third parties for her own benefit and created false invoices to conceal her embezzlement. The government charged her with signing a false 2014 federal income tax return on which she reported that her income was only $96,496 when she knew her income was substantially higher. Jackson faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for wire fraud and three years in prison for signing a false tax return. She could also be required to serve a total of four years of supervised release and to pay a fine of up to $250,000 on each count.