Under sentencing from the Department of Justice for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pa., Donna Laansma will serve three years in prison and three years’ supervised release.

The Fairless Hills mom will also pay full restitution for the theft of $1.8 million from her Horsham place of work.

Her case, for which charges were filed in Feb. 2022, involved the abuse of her role as financial controller at Astea International, Inc., a Montgomery County global management software company.

According to court documents, Laansma surreptitiously obtained a corporate credit card.

From 2014–2020, she used that card on a prolonged shopping spree, purchasing shoes, vacations, groceries, furniture, gift cards, and even her son’s college tuition.

The fraud was only uncovered when Astea was bought out and related due diligence showed Laansma’s inflated income conspicuously absent from her 2020 tax return.

“Donna Laansma cheated her former employer out of nearly two million dollars, and covered her tracks to hide her fraud,” said U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero. “Instead of doing the right thing and performing her job honestly as the company’s controller, she chose the greedy path.

“Our office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to protect innocent individuals and businesses from being victimized by financial fraud,” she concluded.

Further details on the sentencing of Donna Laansma are contained in the source press release.