Together, Ms. Wortham and Ms. Hudson used the stolen cash to purchase a five-bedroom dwelling in Smyrna, simply miles from the Amazon warehouse, for practically $1 million, together with a Lamborghini, a Tesla, a Porsche Panamera, a Kawasaki bike and a Dodge Durango S.U.V., in response to prosecutors. They additionally purchased costly jewellery with the stolen cash, charging paperwork present.

After Ms. Wortham left Amazon in March 2022, the scheme continued, prosecutors mentioned.

In January, whereas out on bond, Ms. Wortham and Ms. Hudson had been working with a franchising firm to attempt to open a hookah lounge, in response to prosecutors. When the corporate requested them in regards to the expenses associated to the Amazon case, Ms. Wortham and Ms. Hudson despatched the corporate cast court docket paperwork indicating that expenses had been dismissed within the case, in response to prosecutors. Their bonds had been revoked after the authorities discovered in regards to the forgery.

Last month, Ms. Hudson was indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy, wire fraud and cash laundering expenses within the Amazon case. She and Ms. Wortham had been additionally charged with forgery in reference to the hassle to assert that expenses within the Amazon case had been dismissed.

A lawyer for Ms. Hudson didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Thursday.

Ms. Wortham and Ms. Hudson had been assisted within the Amazon scheme by Demetrius Hines, who labored in loss prevention for Amazon, and Laquettia Blanchard, who was a human assets assistant on the firm, in response to prosecutors.

Mr. Hines and Ms. Blanchard gave Ms. Wortham names and Social Security numbers that had been used to create a number of the phony vendor accounts, in response to prosecutors. Mr. Hines purchased the stolen private info from JaQuan Frazier, prosecutors mentioned.