An Atlanta woman has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison as part of a fraud scheme that stole nearly $10 million from Amazon, prosecutors say.
According to officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, 40-year-old Brittany Hudson and the woman with whom she was in a romantic relationship used fake vendors and invoices to steal the money.
Officials say Hudson owned a business that contracted with Amazon and was in a relationship with Kayricka Wortham, who worked as an operations manager at the company’s warehouse in Smyrna.
From around January to June 2022, the couple tricked unknowing subordinates into adding fake vendors to the company’s system, authorities said. They then sent in forged invoices that showed the fake vendors had provided Amazon with various goods and services. In her position, Wortham approved the invoices, transferring $9.4…
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