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Courtesy of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office<\/p>\n
NORRISTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Police have arrested a woman for multiple felony charges related to the theft of more than $50,000 from her previous employer, SMB in Bala Cynwyd.<\/p>\n
According to a news release from Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele, Jennifer Rivera, 41, of Bala Cynwyd, turned herself in to Lower Merion Police on Monday.<\/p>\n
The DA says in June, Lower Merion Police were called to SMB, a law firm marketing agency, where the CEO and Senior Finance Director reported that an internal financial review found that employee Jennifer Rivera had used a company issued credit card for personal expenses, dating back to September 2024.<\/p>\n
Lower Merion Detectives began an extensive review of the business\u2019 financial records and interviewed individuals employed by SMB. Police say the investigation found that Rivera had spent company funds of $1,339 on videography\/photography services for a Bar Mitzvah, more than $25,000 on a vacation for her family and friends, and spent $25,596.68 on clothing, bathroom accessories and other personal items on Amazon using the business\u2019 Amazon account.<\/p>\n
Steele says the theft from the company by Rivera totaled $50,243.31, which Rivera used for personal gain. The audit also found that Rivera had booked a future trip to the Bahamas for her family using company AmEx points, worth more than $9,000, which she was not authorized to do, according to the release.<\/p>\n
The DA says after turning herself in, Rivera was charged with four counts of Theft by Deception, Receiving Stolen Property and Access Device Fraud, all third-degree felonies. She was arraigned and her bail was set at $25,000 unsecured, with an additional provision of no contact with anyone at SMB.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m., Sept. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office NORRISTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Police have arrested a woman for multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1646,114472,114471,2898,10716,114469,183,185,184,2248,186,200,114470,209],"class_list":["post-271893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-arrest","tag-business-audit","tag-credit-card-misuse","tag-embezzlement","tag-fraud","tag-jennifer-rivera","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-police","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-smb","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}