WICHITA โ€” A central Kansas woman has been sentenced to two years of probation for embezzling more than $211,000 from a feedlot where she worked to pay off losses from her own cattle trading.

The U.S. Attorneyโ€™s office says 37-year-old Carrie L. Frederick, of Sterling, must also pay about $80,000 in restitution under the sentence she received Friday in federal court.

Frederick pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud.

She admitted stealing the money from Sellers Farms, a Lyons feeding operation where she went to work in 2007. She owed more than $150,000 to her previous employer, Golden Belt Feeders in St. John, for losses from cattle transactions she financed while serving on Golden Beltโ€™s board.

Frederick used the money stolen from Sellers Farms for personal expenses and to repay Golden Belt.


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