PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A former resident of Westmoreland County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal wire fraud and identity theft laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced Wednesday.

The four-count indictment, returned on September 27, 2018, and unsealed yesterday, charged Jennifer Lynne Clark, aka Jennifer Gill, age 40, formerly of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania and now residing in Clearwater, Florida, with two counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft.

According to the indictment, from in and around August 2015 to in and around October 2016, Clark obtained credit card information for company credit cards belonging to her employer. Clark then set up mobile payment accounts with Square, Inc., in the false names of other businesses, and used the credit card information to authorize fraudulent payments into her own personal bank account. The indictment alleges that Clark was responsible for fraudulent transactions totaling approximately $144,129.77.

In making the unauthorized transactions, Clark used credit card numbers that were assigned to specific individual employees.

The law provides for a maximum total sentence of 64 years in prison, a fine of either $2,500,000 or an alternative amount depending on the victims’ losses, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed would be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.

Assistant United States Attorney Adam N. Hallowell is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation leading to the indictment in this case.