The comptroller behind the theft of $18 million in Sacramento County funds was sentenced to 44 months in prison in U.S. District Court on Friday.
Kerry Seaman and another executive at New Jersey-based Ingentra earlier pleaded guilty to stealing payroll taxes from the county and two companies and providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service.
Sacramento County outsourced payroll processing for its special-district employees to Ingentra from 2005 to 2010. Rather than forward all tax payments to the IRS, the company kept $18 million for itself and manipulated documents to understate how much the county owed.