“THE CHARGES AGAINST US WERE DISMISSED AND WE HAVE THE COURT RECORDS TO PROVE IT”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, PROSECUTORS SAY A PAIR OF WOMEN STOLE $9.4 MILLION FROM AMAZON, FORGED A FEDERAL JUDGE’S SIGNATURE WHILE ON BOND, AND HAVE NOW BEEN SENTENCED TO COMBINED DECADES IN FEDERAL PRISON.
From January 2022 through June 2022, an extensive fraud scheme targeted Amazon.
The operation involved 40-year-old Brittany Hudson and her romantic partner, 35-year-old Kayricka Wortham.
Together, the two women participated in stealing approximately $9.4 million from the company.
Hudson owned a business named Legend Express LLC.
Her company contracted directly with Amazon to deliver packages to customers.
Wortham was employed as an operations manager at an Amazon warehouse in Smyrna, Georgia.
In that position, Wortham supervised warehouse employees.
She also possessed the official authority to approve new vendors.
Her position gave her the power to approve vendor invoice payments.
Authorities identified Wortham as the leader of the entire scheme.
She provided fake vendor information to unsuspecting employees.
Wortham then directed those workers to enter the details into Amazon’s vendor system.
Once the fake vendors were established in the database, the process continued.
Wortham and another co-conspirator approved the fraudulent accounts.
The official approval enabled invoices to be submitted into the system.
Wortham recruited other individuals to serve as contacts for the fake vendor entities.
And she brought another Amazon employee into the scheme.
Hudson and Wortham subsequently submitted more than 1,000 fictitious invoices.
The invoices falsely claimed that the listed vendors had provided goods and services to Amazon.
Wortham approved the fraudulent submissions.
Her approvals caused Amazon to transfer approximately $9.4 million.
The funds were deposited directly into bank accounts controlled by Hudson, Wortham, and their co-conspirators.
The stolen money was used to finance real estate purchases, luxury vehicles, and other expensive items.
The pair bought a home in Smyrna using more than $900,000 in fraud proceeds.
They purchased a 2019 Lamborghini Urus.
They bought a 2021 Dodge Durango.
They acquired a 2022 Tesla Model X.
They purchased a 2018 Porsche Panamera.
They bought a Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle.
In September 2022, Hudson and Wortham were charged in federal court in connection with the Amazon scheme.
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Both women were released on bond.
In January 2023, while out on bond, the pair attempted another fraud.
They were seeking a franchise agreement to open a hookah lounge in Midtown Atlanta.
Hudson and Wortham falsely told the franchising company that their Amazon-related criminal charges had been dismissed.
To support that claim, they emailed counterfeit court documents.
The documents contained a forged signature belonging to former Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr.
The records also bore the forged signature of Cobb County Magistrate Judge Norman L. Barnett.
Barnett had previously served as one of the prosecutors handling their federal case.
Hudson also submitted doctored bank statements to the franchising business.
She provided personal financial records that falsely inflated their account balances.
Their pretrial release was revoked.
On March 13, 2026, a federal jury found Hudson guilty of all 30 felony charges brought against her.
The verdict included convictions on two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Hudson was convicted of 17 counts of wire fraud.
The jury found her guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
She was convicted on nine counts of money laundering.
She was also found guilty of one count of forging the signature of a federal judge.
The jury determined that money seized from Hudson’s bank account was proceeds of the fraud scheme.
Jurors found that her Smyrna residence constituted fraud proceeds and was subject to forfeiture.
On August 26, 2026, Hudson was sentenced to 16 years and three months in federal prison.
Her prison term is to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Hudson was ordered to pay $9,469,731.45 in restitution to Amazon.
A judge entered a forfeiture money judgment against Hudson in the amount of $7,859,135.54.
The court ordered Hudson to forfeit her Smyrna residence.
The court also ordered the forfeiture of the funds seized from her bank account.
Wortham was previously sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for her role in the Amazon fraud scheme.
She was ordered to pay $9,469,731.45 in restitution to Amazon.
On March 25, 2026, Wortham received an additional consecutive year in prison after pleading guilty to forging a federal judge’s signature.
The consecutive sentence brought Wortham’s total term of imprisonment to 17 years.
They ran the billing scheme.
They forged the court filings.
They were ordered to prison.
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