Man charged with taking $100K from employer
George Lee Millis charged with four counts of embezzlement
A Mt. Pleasant is accused of embezzling more than $100,000 over four years from his employer.
Gregory Lee Millis, 39, of Mt. Pleasant, was charged Thursday with four counts of embezzlement and four counts of using a computer to commit a crime following an investigation by troopers from the Michigan State Police Mt. Pleasant post.
Millis is accused of overstating how much his employer, Lockey USA, sold through Amazon in Lockey’s accounting software, according to the criminal complaint. In doing so, Millis is accused of falsely inflating his own commissions by more than $100,000 over four years.
This allegedly went on over the course of four calendar years from 2016-19, increasing every year, according to the complaint. In 2016, Millis is accused of having embezzled approximately $12,300; in 2017, it was approximately $17,100; in 2018, it was $24,400; and in 2019, it was approximately $46,300.
Lockey sells doors and gate hardware produced
by the company, according to the complaint, including up to $1 million annually through Amazon.
The company’s president saw what is described in the complaint as “a massive incongruence between what Amazon software says they owe/paid and what the Lockey accounting software said they owed/paid,” to Det. Sgt. Joe Mcmillan, of the Mt. Pleasant Post of the Michigan State Police, in a September 2019 interview.
Mcmillan met with Dr. Thomas Weirich, a professor with CMU’S school of accounting, and assembled a forensic accounting team to investigate. The team determined that Millis had embezzled more than $100,315.65, the complaint said. Millis was charged with two counts of embezzling between $20,000$50,000, a 10-year felony; two counts of embezzling between $1,000-$20,000, a five-year felony; and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime of between $20,000-$50,000, a 10-year felony; and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime of between $1,000-$20,000, a seven-year felony. He is scheduled for a preliminary exam on Jan. 28. If sufficient evidence is presented, the case will be bound over to circuit court for trial.