{"id":172154,"date":"2026-02-20T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172154\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:29:08","slug":"el-paso-woman-sentenced-to-nearly-3-years-for-more-than-600000-in-wire-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172154\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso woman sentenced to nearly 3 years for more than $600,000 in wire fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; An El Paso woman working as an accountant was sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $600,000 through fraudulent transactions from Texas and New Mexico real estate businesses.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, 61 year-old Carol Talamantes initiated more than 90 fund transfers or fraudulent checks to herself over a period of four years from October 2020 to 2024, totaling $603,738.96. She was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents state Talamantes used the funds to pay for personal expenses including her home mortgage and credit card bills.<\/p>\n<p>Talamantes pled guilty to one county of wire fraud on Sept. 26, 2025, and had been released on a $20,000 bond. She has also agreed to pay back a judgement of $603,738.96.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip Countryman prosecuted it.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; An El Paso woman working as an accountant was sentenced in federal court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-172154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}