SALINAS – Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced on Monday that two women from Arizona have been arrested in connection with a $3 million embezzlement scheme from Taylor Farms.
Karen Rodriguez, 38, and Elizabeth Vargas, 34, were charged with embezzling more than $3 million from Taylor Farms while being employed in the Human Resources department of Automated Harvesting, LLC – a subsidiary of Taylor Farms – between 2019 and 2023.
The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office reported that during that time, Rodriguez and Vargas issued and cashed hundreds of fraudulent checks that were made out to former employees who had returned to Mexico and were no longer working for the company…