A former Florida Department of Financial Services employee was arrested on a host of fraud-related charges after allegedly fleecing the agency over several years of more than $1.7 million.
Briana McCarthy, 35, of Tallahassee, was arrested Jan. 27 on charges that include aggravated white collar crime against a state agency, grand theft, money laundering, solicitation and conspiracy, official misconduct and forgery.
She was taken to the Leon County Detention Facility and later released on a $10,000 bond. The case was investigated by the agency’s Office of Fiscal Integrity under the Division of Criminal Investigations…