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Former law firm office manager to plead guilty in a $1.3 million embezzlement scheme
SACRAMENTO August 14, 2009 7:52am 
• Money was used to buy horses and more • ‘A serious breach of trust’ Regina Schenck, 46, of Herald, a community in Sacramento County, has agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts charging her with computer fraud and filing a false tax return related to her embezzlement of approximately $1.3 million from a Sacramento law firm, according to U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown.
Ms. Schenck stole the money between 2003 and 2008, writing law firm checks to pay her own bills, created false documents, and told lies to cause law firm partners to authorize checks that she secretly used to buy five horses and a horse trailer, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Segal, who is prosecuting the case.
She used the law firm’s computer network to inflate her salary, bonus, and benefits, and she omitted her fraud-procured income from her tax return, say prosecutors.
“Schenk’s embezzlement constituted a serious breach of trust. We are grateful to her former employer for stepping up to report her wrongdoing and assisting with the investigation,” says Mr. Brown.
Ms. Schenck is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept 6. Prosecutors did not identify the Sacramento law firm, but which was identified in media reports as Diepenbrock Harrison
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