Md. woman sentenced for wire fraud

Federal prosecutors say a Brunswick woman has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for wire fraud in a plot to embezzle more than $700,000 from her employer.

Forty-one-year-old Kymberli Rand was also ordered to forfeit her home and retirement funds at sentencing on Monday.

Rand was administrative assistant for the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation. According to her plea agreement, from 2003 into 2010, Rand had embezzled more than $700,000, which she used to pay her personal American Express bill. To hide the fraud, Rand entered the fraudulent American Express payments as travel expenses, and failed to credit the 401(k) accounts of some employees.

-- Associated Press