Former Finance Manager Gets 27 Months for Embezzling $1.6 Million from Youth Charity
The sentence follows a guilty plea in a federal wire fraud case built on an FBI investigation.
Overview
- U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín imposed the prison term plus three years of supervised release, with restitution to be set later.
- Between November 2017 and June 2023, Carrie Lynn Grant diverted charity funds into her personal account and created fraudulent records to conceal the theft.
- Prosecutors said the money paid for first-class travel, premium seats at Warriors and 49ers games, and a condominium in Hawaii.
- Grant, 62, of Pleasant Hill, was indicted on July 22, 2024, and pleaded guilty on August 11, 2025, to one count of wire fraud.
- She is scheduled to report to prison on March 9, 2026, after a case prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Evan M. Mateer and built on an FBI investigation.