Harriette Walters (D.C. govt. photo)Harriette Walters, the ringleader behind a massive, two-decade-long, $50 million embezzlement scheme run from the inside of the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue, has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison today.
The prison time is on the high end of the 15 to 18 year sentencing window arranged in her plea agreement. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan handed down the sentence, which also includes restitution and tax payments.
Ten other co-conspirators have already been sentenced. All 11 suspects, including Walters, pleaded guilty in the case. Walters’s sentence is by far the longest, with the next closest being nine years in prison, for Jayrece Turnbull, Walters’s niece.
