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Atlanta woman sentenced to 16 years for $10 million Amazon fraud

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Brittany Hudson was sentenced to over 16 years in prison for a $10 million fraud scheme against Amazon.
  • She and a former Amazon operations manager, Kayricka Wortham, used fake sellers and falsified invoices to transfer funds to their own accounts.
  • The stolen money was used to purchase luxury items, including a nearly $1 million home and several high-end vehicles.

Brittany Hudson has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for her role in a massive fraud scheme that defrauded Amazon of nearly $10 million in just a few months.

Hudson was the owner of a business that contracted with Amazon and had a relationship with Kayricka Wortham, who worked as an operations manager at the company's warehouse in Smyrna, Georgia.

— U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of GeorgiaDescribing the relationship between the two women involved in the fraud.

The scheme, which ran between January and June 2022, involved Hudson, who owned a business contracting with Amazon, and Kayricka Wortham, a former operations manager at Amazon's Smyrna, Georgia warehouse. According to U.S. federal prosecutors, the pair tricked Amazon employees into adding fake sellers to the company's system. They then submitted falsified invoices for goods and services that these fake sellers supposedly provided.

Hudson was found guilty by a jury on March 13, 2026.

— U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of GeorgiaStating the date of Hudson's conviction.

Wortham, leveraging her position as operations manager, approved these fraudulent invoices without raising suspicion. This allowed the transfer of $9.4 million to bank accounts controlled by Hudson, Wortham, and other conspirators. The illicit funds were then used to acquire a lavish lifestyle, including a nearly $1 million home in Smyrna, a 2019 Lamborghini Urus, a 2021 Dodge Durango, a 2022 Tesla Model X, a 2018 Porsche Panamera, and a Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle.

Hudson and Wortham deceived some workers into adding fake sellers to the company's system.

— U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of GeorgiaExplaining a key step in the fraud.

Federal authorities uncovered the fraud in September 2022, leading to the formal charges against Hudson and Wortham. Rob Donovan, special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service's Atlanta Field Office, stated, "Our office remains steadfast in our commitment to uncovering fraud, protecting victims, and working with our partners in the U.S. Attorney's Office to bring criminals like this to justice." Despite the ongoing investigation and impending trial for the Amazon theft, both Hudson and Wortham were out on bail in January 2023. During this period, they allegedly initiated a second fraud, attempting to open a nightclub in Atlanta by misrepresenting their financial standing to a potential franchise partner.

Wortham, due to her position in the company, could approve the invoices without concern, transferring $9.4 million to bank accounts held by the couple and other co-conspirators.

— U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of GeorgiaDetailing how Wortham facilitated the fund transfers.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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