A former law firm bookkeeper has pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling nearly $690,000 from her employer and his mother.
Federal prosecutors say Karen Davis-Jennings of Bloomfield pleaded guilty in Hartford to three counts of mail fraud and one count of filing a false tax return.
Davis-Jennings, 43, was a paralegal and bookkeeper in West Hartford for eight years.
Prosecutors say she wrote checks on the law office’s account to pay her mortgage and credit card bills and siphoned off money through a debit card to gamble at a Connecticut casino.
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Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 9. Davis-Jennings faces a maximum of 63 years in prison and fines of $850,000.
