A former warehouse and labor supervisor for a St. Louis flooring company pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and admitted to embezzling $339,844 from his former employer between 2014–2020, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Ronald Scott Miller, 54, was charged last year with defrauding the flooring company. Miller was responsible for supervising the flooring company’s installers, schedules and drafting time sheets. He submitted false timesheets for himself, his son and his partner, who did not work for the company.
“Miller falsely inflated the hours worked by his son without his son's knowledge and did the same for himself by claiming he was working on installation projects when he was not,” the DOJ stated.
Miller submitted invoices in the names of two fake companies he claimed to have made purchases at, paying himself with company credit cards or causing the company to issue checks to pay fake invoices, the DOJ added.
Miller also altered and inflated receipts for legitimate purchases he made and then sought reimbursement from his employer.
Miller’s sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 28. Wire fraud penalties can be up to 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both, according to the DOJ.
