Overview
- Felecia Ingram, 53, of Covington, Georgia, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison, plus three years of supervised release, and must pay $3,946,776 in restitution to The Home Depot.
- Prosecutors said that between March 2020 and July 2021 she removed about 8,325 gift cards from the company’s Store Support Center, totaling more than $4 million.
- Authorities said she used network credentials to create sham corporate orders to activate the cards, deleted the orders to hide the theft, and sold the cards on the black market, with proceeds largely funding gambling.
- The scheme came to light when Home Depot’s gift card team found ledger discrepancies, prompting a U.S. Secret Service investigation and a federal prosecution led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen H. McClain.
- Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. handed down the sentence; Ingram had pleaded guilty on May 1, 2025.