A former Kent, Washington resident, Christin Guillory, has been sentenced to an additional twelve months and one day in prison for embezzling from her new employer while awaiting sentencing for a previous theft. Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller announced the sentence at the U.S. District Court in Seattle.
In 2023, Guillory was initially sentenced to three years in prison for stealing over $2.5 million from an Everett manufacturing company where she worked as an accounting manager. Despite pleading guilty to this crime, she continued her fraudulent activities by secretly stealing tens of thousands of dollars from another employer who was unaware of her ongoing prosecution.
The court had mandated that Guillory inform her new employer about her prosecution and provide proof to the probation office. However, she failed to disclose this information and instead misled the probation office with falsified documents claiming she had lost her job due to informing her employer about the prosecution.
Guillory admitted to the second theft in February 2025 by pleading guilty to wire fraud and concealing material facts from the United States.
At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez stated, “You lied to the court while the court was trying to determine if you were a danger to the community… You are responsible for the actions you took, and those actions have consequences.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Miller commented on Guillory’s deceitful behavior: “The defendant lied to the court, to the probation office, and to the second company that had unwittingly placed her in a position of trust.” He added that instead of being truthful about her federal conviction for embezzlement, Guillory deceived her employer and continued stealing until reporting for prison.
Court records reveal that after being fired for embezzling $2.5 million from an Everett company, Guillory began working at a company in Kent by January 2023 while aware of an FBI investigation into her previous crimes. She pleaded guilty in May 2023 but falsely claimed through legal representation that she had no access to financial accounts or checks at her current employment.
Despite these claims, between January and August 2023, Guillory attempted various methods such as altering vendor checks and manipulating payroll systems resulting in approximately $60,000 stolen funds including writing herself a check worth $3,516 on her last workday without notifying departure plans which led employers discovering prior charges via online search when unable contacting directly afterward
Prosecutors recommended additional imprisonment citing exploitation trust secret funneling tens thousands dollars covering up offenses involving least twenty-five transactions during time supposedly accepting responsibility same conduct continuing engage said acts described particularly egregious given circumstances surrounding ongoing prosecutions
While some transactions reversed successfully total remaining owed amounts now include additional restitution obligations amounting forty-two thousand dollars atop initial two-and-a-half-million-dollar order alongside nearly six-hundred-thousand-dollar tax evasion penalties previously issued
Investigations conducted jointly Federal Bureau Investigation Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Unit along Probation Pretrial Services overseen Assistant United States Attorney Seth Wilkinson handling prosecution duties throughout proceedings
