Former Employee Sentenced for Defrauding Waste Management

Donna Alms was recently sentenced to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty in January 2018 to wire fraud and money laundering charges.

The 55-year-old Las Vegas woman was a former operations specialist for Waste Management on the Big Island of Hawaii. She was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for defrauding Waste Management of $862,722 over the course of four years.

According to court documents, Alms admitted that she inflated 247 invoices submitted to Waste Management by a vendor by cutting and pasting numbers onto a template that she maintained. Alms’ activities caused Waste Management to pay the vendor $862,722 in costs above what was actually billed.

ABC Action News 13 has more:

A Las Vegas woman was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for defrauding a waste disposal company of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

55-year-old Donna Alms, formerly of the Big Island of Hawaii, was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in federal prison for defrauding Waste Management of Hawaii, Inc. of $862,722 over the course of 4 years.

According to information presented in court, Alms pleaded guilty in January 2018 to wire fraud and money laundering offenses that occurred while she was an operations specialist for Waste Management on the Island of Hawaii. Alms’s duties included obtaining temporary laborers to pick litter from Waste Management’s landfill site, and to arrange for their payment through an outside vendor. The vendor would then submit invoices to Alms for payment by Waste Management.

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