Tina Feuerstein, a former chief financial officer for a Pennsylvania company owned by a Chicago-area parent, has been convicted of quietly bleeding the business for more than $1 million. A federal jury found Feuerstein, 53, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, guilty on eight counts of wire fraud after prosecutors said she treated the company credit card like her own. The jury returned its verdicts on April 9, and she is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 26, 2026. According to prosecutors, the scheme unfolded over several years and involved thousands of concealed charges.
How prosecutors say she hid the theft
At trial, prosecutors said Feuerstein used the company credit card to pay for personal purchases, including luxury furniture, designer clothing and routine household expenses. They told jurors she then falsified entries in the general ledger to cover her tracks, deleting items from the company’s expense-reporting system so that more than 3,800 credit-card charges, totaling over $1 million, vanished from view, according to WGN-TV.
Evidence presented at trial
Jurors were shown records that Feuerstein prepared false consolidated financial statements that misstated the company’s total expenses and hid where the money had actually gone. Patch reported that prosecutors also told the court Feuerstein had previously embezzled more than $250,000 while working in an earlier accounting role.
Penalties and next steps
Each wire fraud count carries a statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison, although any sentence will be shaped by federal guidelines, restitution calculations and Feuerstein’s record. The court has set a sentencing hearing for Aug. 26, 2026, when a judge will formally decide Feuerstein’s punishment and any restitution owed, according to prosecutors.
What this underscores for employers
The case underscores how a trusted insider with broad access to company payment tools and accounting systems can quietly run up repeated charges that snowball into seven figures. Coverage of the trial highlighted gaps in internal controls and emphasized the importance of separating financial duties and using independent reconciliations to catch irregularities, as noted by Patch.
For Feuerstein, the guilty verdict is only the end of the trial phase. The legal story will not fully close until the August sentencing, when the court decides how much prison time she will serve and how much money she will be ordered to pay back.
