Former Brim’s executive sentenced for stealing $425,000 | Crime

(WMC-TV) – A former snack food executive was sentenced to almost three years in prison for embezzling about $425,000 from his former employer.

Charles Nichols pled guilty last year to stealing the money from Brimhall Foods Company, Inc., better known as Brim’s Snack Foods, over a period of 8 years.

Nichols served as the company’s vice president of finance and had the ability to write checks that were drawn on Brim’s accounts.

The 48-year-old admitted that he forged the signatures’ of other executives and then deposited the checks into his own accounts.

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