Woman Sentenced to Fed Prison for Embezzling from Spring, TX Energy Company

SPRING, TX — A former employee of Southwestern Energy is going to club fed for three years. Kendra Walker, 28, pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $450,000 from the spring-based natural gas producer.

Walker worked in Southwestern Energy's accounts payable department, and around February 2014 she started creating fake invoices and changing vendor records so that checks would go to her bank account instead of to the companies that did the work.

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The scam ran for about a year before it was detected. Walker pleaded guilty in federal court for embezzling funds and while U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas was considering factors for sentencing Walker decided to go for broke and try to claim the iron-clad ovaries award.

Walker submitted a three-page report that, she said, was from a hospice. The report claimed that Walker suffered from "stage five" breast cancer. Funny thing, the National Cancer Institute only recognizes cancer as going up to stage four.

When the FBI started looking into Walker's cancer claim the bureau called shenanigans after finding that she had never been treated for cancer, either at a hospice or at a hospital.

Atlas did not find Walker's antics amusing and described her attempts to weasel out of doing time as "inexcusable."