KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 41-year-old Kansas City, Missouri man was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday for reimbursing himself $612,000 in fictitious business-related expenses from his employer.
U.S. District Judge Greg Kays sentenced Jeremy Ubben to two years and nine months in federal prison and three additional years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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The court ordered Ubben to pay $612,000 in restitution to his former employer, $127,589 to the Internal Revenue Service and $27,038 to the State of Missouri. The court also ordered Ubben to forfeit to the government $40,000 in laundered stolen funds.
Ubben pleaded guilty back in February to one count of wire fraud, one count of income tax evasion and one count of money laundering. He admitted that he embezzled $612,000 from his law firm employer between March 2023 and Aug. 2024.
According to court documents, Ubben was employed as the firm’s business manager and had full administrator rights to the firm’s online payroll processing program.
Beginning in March 2023, Ubben submitted and approved for himself reimbursement requests for fictitious business expense expenditures totaling tens of thousands of dollars.
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Ubben also admitted that he laundered proceeds from his theft through his TD Ameritrade brokerage account.
According to the news release, Ubben admitted that he failed to file a federal income tax return for tax year 2023. During that year, Ubben had taxable income of $262,000.
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