MARTINEZ — A former employee of a Filipino food company pleaded no contest to financial crimes in a scheme to embezzle $1.4 million from her employer, prosecutors announced Friday.
Mary Antoinette Narvaez Hernandez, 60, pleaded no contest on Thursday to grand theft, identity theft, money laundering, and tax evasion, as part of a plea deal with Contra Costa prosecutors. In return, she’ll be sentenced to a year in county jail, with the potential to serve it on house arrest, as well as a seven-year suspended sentence and three years of probation.
Hernandez was the accounting manager at Ramar Foods International, a food company based in Pittsburg. She embezzled the funds