MISSOULA – A 47-year-old Kalispell woman has pleaded guilty to bank fraud for embezzling more than $227,000 from two companies she did bookkeeping work for.
July L. Hammack entered her plea Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch in Missoula. Sentencing is set for Nov. 6.
Prosecutors say Hammack took more than $157,000 from a masonry company and more than $70,000 from a construction company.
Hammack told investigators she took the money by inflating her paychecks, writing checks to herself, forging her employers’ signatures and having her employers pre-sign checks before entering fraudulent amounts.