Crime & Safety
College Park Resident Handed Prison Time for Wire Fraud
Mary Ayers-Zander, a former D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue employee, was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison for wire fraud, according to The Associated Press.
A College Park resident and former employee of the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue was sentenced Monday in federal court in Washington to 2-1/2 years in prison for wire fraud, the Associated Press reported.
"Mary Ayers-Zander treated the D.C. treasury like her personal piggy bank," said U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr., according to The Examiner.
Ayers-Zander pleaded guilty to stealing more than $400,000 in city money back in October. She admitted before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to issuing fraudulent tax refunds that went into her own bank accounts and the accounts of others, .
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Ayers-Zander will also have to pay back the money she stole, according to the Associated Press.
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