Donna Joy Henderson Gets 4 Years for Stealing $502,000 from Office She Managed for Cruises, Jewelry, Timeshares and Pet Day Spa Visits

By Matt Coker Mon., May 23 2011 at 4:02 PM

A 68-year-old Orange woman was sentenced today to four years in state prison for embezzling $502,000 from the law office she managed to fund a lavish lifestyle that included cruises, gambling, timeshare properties, Home Shopping Network jewelry and collectibles, home improvements and the addition of an indoor spa, and pampered pet day spa visits for her pooch.

Donna Joy Henderson, who in 2000 began working as an office manager and bookkeeper for Rinos & Martin, LLP in Tustin, wrote checks to herself from company accounts and cooked the books to hide her thefts.

Between January 2003 and September 2009, she wrote 122 company checks payable to herself, cash, personal credit cards, relatives or fictitious businesses and deposited them into her personal bank accounts. She documented the stolen checks as "void" in the company's accounting records and altered the firm's monthly financial statements that were submitted to the firm's managing partners for review.

When a new accountant was hired by the firm to implement a different financial system, that employee discovered a check marked "void" had actually been paid to Henderson. The theft was reported to Tustin police in September 2009 and, after further investigation of firm records dating back to 2002, Henderson was arrested this past January.

She pleaded guilty today to one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement with sentencing enhancements and allegations for property damage over $200,000 and loss over $100,000. In addition to her four-year prison sentence, Henderson was also ordered to pay $502,000 in restitution.

No word on who's going to break it to the dog that the mineral wraps are over.

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Guest

Damn. With that much money she should have done something about her face. Or at least gotten the biggest fake tities she could to take the attention away from the danger area.

FishWithoutBicycle

Actually, I'm 33. It's called MATURITY, numbnuts.Truth be told, I've found our little exchange extremely amusing. Thanks for the laughs. Good day, Sir.

FishWithoutBicycle

To Guest: What sexist, irrelevant tripe! So should she be punished worse for not using her ill-gotten fortune to pretty herself up?

Guest

You are absolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking.

A better use of the funds would have been to pretty up both of your ugly mugs. That way there would be TWO less fugly women out there.

Waddle on.

P.S. Maybe you should just shorten your name up to Fishface. No doubt that describes you perfectly.

Guest

Yep. You have confirmed it. You truly are pathetic. And predictable. Talk and act like you are 70 years old or something.

FishWithoutBicycle

Why would I bother using my best material on someone who has the mentality of a 13-year-old anyway? It would be unfair of me to engage in a serious battle of wits with someone who is clearly unarmed.

Guest

Seriously? That's the best shot you got? You are truly pathetic.

Look, just know your place. That is out of sound, out of touch, out of smell for God sake (that nasty thing you call a vagina is stinking up the place something fierce), and most importantly, stay out of sight. Nobody wants to hear what comes out of your fugly pie hole.

FishWithoutBicycle

How silly of me to forget...there IS a surgery to fix your problem! It's called a LOBOTOMY.

Guest

Just worry about yourself sister. Removing your fugliness is surely more than you, or anyone, can probably handle. You might want to look into one of those total body transplants for yourself. That's your only hope.