A former Kent woman received an additional sentence of 12 months and one day in prison for stealing from her new employer while awaiting sentencing for stealing from a past employer.
U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo S. Martinez sentenced Christin Guillory, 41, to the additional time on June 6 in Seattle, according to an U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. Guillory remains in custody at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center, according to prison records.
Guillory was sentenced to three years in prison in 2023 for stealing more than $2.5 million from an Everett manufacturing company where she worked as accounting manager. After pleading guilty to wire and tax fraud, and while awaiting sentencing, she secretly stole tens of thousands of dollars from an employer in Kent who did not know about her ongoing prosecution, according to the DOJ.
The court had ordered Guillory to notify her new employer of the prosecution and to provide the probation office with evidence she had done so. Guillory did not tell her employer about her prior fraud as required. Instead, Guillory falsely told the probation office she had informed her employer of the prosecution and had lost her employment as a result.
Guillory provided probation with a falsified email to substantiate the false information, according the DOJ. Guillory continued to work for, and embezzle funds from, her employer until she reported to prison to serve her sentence. The new employer learned of the prosecution only after Guillory failed to report for work without explanation when she reported to serve her sentence.
Guillory admitted to the second theft in February 2025, pleading to wire fraud and concealing material facts from the United States.
“You lied to the court while the court was trying to determine if you were a danger to the community… . You are responsible for the actions you took, and those actions have consequences,” Martinez said at the sentencing.
According to records filed in the case, after Guillory was fired from an Everett company, she began work for a company in Kent. By January of 2023, she was aware that her Everett embezzlement was being investigated by the FBI. She pleaded guilty to wire fraud in May 2023.
At the time of her guilty plea, the magistrate judge asked about her current employment. Through her attorney, Guillory claimed she had no access to bank accounts or checks. Nevertheless, the magistrate judge ordered Guillory to inform her employer of her conviction. Guillory later claimed to her pretrial services officer and other probation staff that she had been fired after informing the company. She claimed that the only employment she had, before reporting for prison, was as a nanny or receptionist.
In fact, Guillory never told her Kent employer about the conviction, and she had already begun embezzling from that company. Between January and August 2023, she attempted to steal some $60,000 by altering checks made out to vendors, manipulating the payroll system to increase her own paycheck, or simply writing checks to herself, according to the DOJ. On her last day at the office, she wrote a check to herself for $3,516. Guillory never told the company she was leaving. When she did not show up for work and they could not reach her, a web search revealed the prior embezzlement case.
In recommending that Guillory be sentenced to an additional year of imprisonment, prosecutors wrote to the court:
“Guillory exploited her position of trust by secretly funneling tens of thousands of dollars to herself and then covering it up. The offense involved at least 25 transactions. This was particularly egregious because, at the time she was stealing from victim 2, she was being prosecuted for (and supposedly had accepted responsibility for) the exact same type of conduct that she continued to engage in.”
The company was able to reverse some of the transactions but is still owed $42,000. That amount is now added on to the restitution from the earlier case. In 2023, Judge Martinez ordered restitution of $2.53 million to the Everett company, and $590,850 to the U.S. Treasury for her failure to pay tax on the ill-gotten gain.
The cases were investigated by the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service: Criminal Investigation as well as U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services.
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