A Gilroy woman, employed as an administrative assistant, has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to elder fraud stemming from an embezzlement case in which she siphoned over $100,000 from the family-owned Guglielmo Winery. According to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office, Stacey Greenlee, 62, exploited her position with the winery’s elderly owner between October 2022 and March 2024, during which time she illicitly accessed the business’s financial accounts and credit information.
The fraud involved Greenlee opening credit cards in her name and quickly gambling away $60,000 at a Sonoma County casino. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown handed down a four-year suspended state prison sentence yesterday. Instead, Greenlee will have to carefully manage to complete a four-year probationary period, which includes the jail time starting March 5, and an order to pay $30,000 in restitution.
Amidst the proceedings, District Attorney Jeff Rosen sharply critiqued Greenlee’s conduct, stating, “This woman chose to steal from her employer. By abusing that trust, she gambled with their livelihood. Embezzlement doesn’t pay out.” The case unfolded from an investigation by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, which revealed that Greenlee covered her thefts from the family winery’s bank accounts by authoring fraudulent checks and using two credit cards opened in her name…