Dartmouth Woman Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud After Stealing Funds

BOSTON (WBSM) — A Dartmouth woman pleaded guilty today to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from two different employers.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Jasmyne Botelho, 41, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud. She had previously been indicted by a federal grand jury in May 2024 after first being arrested for the crime in December 2023.

Between September 2017 and April 2020, Botelho stole at least $280,000 from her employer, a Bristol County industrial company. She direct payments intended for the company’s vendor to bank accounts she controlled, and then used company funds to make payments on her personal credit cards and auto loan.

Botelho hid her scheme by falsifying her employer’s books and records to make it appear as if the payments had been made to the intended vendors.

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Then, between May 2022 and December 2023, Botelho improperly inflated her payroll from another employer by more than $160,000. She concealed her scheme by manipulating her employer’s payroll and accounting software to hide her inflated payroll as well as phony “reimbursements” she paid herself, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Botelho will be sentenced on December 18, 2024. She faces up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.