A Huntington Beach woman pleaded guilty to 10 felonies on Thursday, Oct. 2 for embezzling over $2.8 million from her employer, an instant noodle manufacturer where she worked as an account manager for over a decade.

As an account manager, Tae Miyaji Jones, 50, had access to the Garden Grove-based company’s financial systems, corporate accounts, records and had the authority to sign checks. Over a nearly six-year period from Dec. 2017 to July 2023, Jones transferred money from the company’s accounts into her own, totaling more than $2.8 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She had worked as an account manager from 2010 until her termination in 2023.

Jones pleaded guilty to seven counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud. She is currently out on bond and scheduled to

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