A Kansas City, Missouri man has been sentenced to federal prison for embezzling $612,000 from his employer. Jeremy M. Ubben, 41, received a sentence of 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release from U.S. District Judge Greg Kays.
The court ordered Ubben to pay restitution totaling $612,000 to his former employer, $127,589 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and $27,038 to the State of Missouri. In addition, he must forfeit $40,000 in laundered stolen funds to the government.
Ubben pleaded guilty on February 5, 2025, to one count each of wire fraud, income tax evasion, and money laundering. According to court documents, between March 2023 and August 2024 while working as business manager at a law firm, Ubben used his administrator rights on the firm’s payroll system to submit and approve false reimbursement requests for business expenses that did not exist. He then laundered some of the proceeds through his TD Ameritrade brokerage account.
He also admitted that he failed to file a federal income tax return for tax year 2023 despite having taxable income of $262,000 that year. The total federal tax loss was calculated at $98,785.30 with an additional state tax loss of $27,038.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Constance following investigations by Homeland Security Investigations and IRS Criminal Investigations.
