A New York woman who worked as a personal assistant pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Wednesday for a scheme in which she stole $10 million from her elderly employers.
The woman, Catalina Corona, blew some of the stolen money on luxury goods from Gucci, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and to pay off her credit card debt, prosecutors said.
Corona, 62, faces a maximum possible prison sentence of 30 years in the case, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Corona was accused of using fraudulent checks and impersonating her employers to defraud the unidentified Long Island married couple out of millions of dollars from 2017, when she began working for them, through 2024. One of the victims died in 2022, according to court records.
Corona wrote hundreds of checks from the couple’s bank accounts out to cash, payable to herself, and also transferred funds directly from the victims’ accounts to her own, according to court filings.
