A Lake Ozark woman will spend time in federal prison for her role in a scheme to defraud her former employer. 

    Fifty-one year old Lorraine Hess was sentenced in U.S. District court to 2 years and 6 months in prison wthout the chance of parole. She will also have to pay over $470,000 in restitution to her former employer SSL Enterprises. 

    Back on the 9th of June, Hess plead guilty to money laundering and bank fraud.  The Lake Ozark woman was employed as a bookeeper at SSL from May of 2006 through November of 2007.  During that time she admitted that she made unauthorized wire transfers from an SSL account to her private bank account. She also admitted to creating 18 unatuhorized checks using forged signatures or signature stamps that were made payable to her and deposited into her personal account.  Hess also used a Wachovia bank credit card to get 11 more checks that she then depoited into her account and she used a business credit card for personal items. 

    The investigation into the fraud and money laundering was performed by the IRS, the FBI, and the Camden County Sheriff's Department.