{"id":457377,"date":"2026-09-08T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457377\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:50:07","slug":"clovis-woman-held-in-4-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457377\/","title":{"rendered":"Clovis Woman Held in $4 Million Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 A Clovis woman is accused of carrying out a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme against her former employer.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors say 47-year-old Kelly Lynn Brown was arrested after allegedly using a company credit card to make more than $4 million dollars in unauthorized personal purchases over nearly four years. Investigators say Brown worked as a bookkeeper for a Fresno-area business and used access to the owner\u2019s personal information to obtain credit cards without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Brown spent the money on luxury retail purchases, travel, beauty treatments, and even down payments on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a Chevrolet Silverado pickup. Prosecutors say she concealed the scheme by using the company\u2019s bank account to pay the credit card bills.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged fraud was discovered in late 2024, and Brown was fired. The FBI investigated the case. Brown faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 A Clovis woman is accused of carrying out a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme against her former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-457377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}