A federal indictment accuses a California female of thieving additional than $1 million from her employer even though functioning for a Minnesota residence management company.

Mai Houa Xiong, 47, who now lives in Fresno, California, has been indicted by a grand jury in Minneapolis on fees of wire fraud, identification theft and filing untrue tax returns in link with the scheme she allegedly ran for far more than 6 many years until August 2021, even right after she was fired.

Xiong was arrested previous 7 days and awaits her upcoming courtroom hearing, which has not nonetheless to be scheduled. Court documents do not list an attorney for her or the organization for whom she worked.

A California woman has been accused of stealing more than $1 million from a Minnesota home administration firm. (WHD News)

According to court docket paperwork, Xiong was employed as a money supervisor for the company in May possibly 2013 and "experienced little oversight and approximately unfettered entry" to the bank accounts of the firm's shoppers, which are Twin Towns property owner associations, or HOAs.

The indictment said the income she allegedly stole came from costs the HOAs gathered from people to address upkeep, development and other expenses.

Prosecutors mentioned Xiong transferred cash into her personalized bank accounts and mislabeled the transactions as legit HOA charges. She also created funds withdrawals directly from the HOAs’ accounts, even for a month after she was fired.