TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 13, 2024

A federal grand jury recently returned an indictment charging Catherine Corrine Daly with embezzlement from a Memphis law firm. According to the indictment, Daly was office manager at a law firm where she had access to the firm’s bank accounts, including the operating account. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee, Daly had two American Express (AmEx) charge accounts in her name and a total of five AmEx charge cards issued through the two accounts to her and two of her relatives. Daly is alleged to have used money in the firm’s operating account to pay off amounts due on those personal AmEx accounts. In total, she is alleged to have embezzled $1.2 million of the law firm’s funds for her own use. The U.S. Secret Service is investigating while Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Murphy is prosecuting the case.