Woman Embezzled To Fund Mary Kay Habit

SunSentinel.com:

Tina Mitchell spent lavishly on vacations, clothes and expensive liquors.

She spent a horrendous amount of money on Mary Kay products that she sold as a side business. She became one of the company’s big sellers, a distinction that comes complete with a cotton-candy-pink Cadillac, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

But there was a problem — the money wasn’t hers.

Mitchell, 40, lined her pockets with $856,126 embezzled from five homeowners associations where she worked as an association representative.

Mitchell was making more than $78,000 a year selling Mary Kay products and a $900-a-week salary from Montgomery Management.

“Everything is gone. In this case she drained the resources of five homeowners associations,” Assistant State Attorney Tory Bouk said, “She spent it on Mary Kay and PayPal and online shopping.”

But Mitchell says she spent more than $300,000 of the stolen money to help friends and other women start their own Mary Kay businesses. She also claims that she spent $40,000 helping families pay bills and mortgages, and another $100,000 on her own Mary Kay business.

The Ensley woman admitted taking money from the accounts after company officials questioned her.

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