Former controller of Lancaster County oil and gas company sentenced to three years for participating in $65 million bank fraud
Philadelphia — Judith Avilez of Elizabethtown, PA, was sentenced to three years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $15 million in restitution by Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for participating in a massive bank fraud scheme over many years. In September 2020, Avilez, the former controller of Worley & Obetz, pleaded guilty to her role in a scheme that defrauded Fulton Bank of over $65 million. Avilez admitted that from 2016 through May 2018, she helped Worley & Obetz's CEO, Jeffrey Lyons, defraud Fulton Bank by creating fraudulent financial statements that grossly i...
Source: irs.gov