“Trusted” Church Employee Barbara Whitt & Son Plead Guilty to Stealing $1.5 Million
Guilty: Barbara D. Whitt, 68, of embezzling some $1.5 million from First Baptist Church, Morristown, Tennessee, where she was the church’s financial secretary for 47 years. Whitt, who doctored more than 1,600 checks written on the church’s bank account in order to make them out to herself, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering. Her son, Michael Dean Whitt, 42, who, Knoxnews.com reports, “deposited money embezzled from the church into prepaid cards and took other steps to avoid currency transaction reports,” pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to launder money. Story: WATE, May 26, 2010; Associated Baptist Press, May 27, 2010; Knoxnews.com, February 15, 2011
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