KEENE, N.H. (MyKeeneNow) – A Keene woman has been sentenced to prison for stealing nearly half a million dollars from her employer.

According to a news release from the Department of Justice, Stephanie Pratt, 39, worked as an office administrator for a company based out of Hinsdale New Hampshire, where she had full access to the company’s finances, including its bank account and credit cards.

Pratt started stealing from the company after she was released from jail for stealing close to $10,000 from her previous employer.

Over the course of six-and-a-half years with the Hinsdale company, the DOJ says she stole $492,325.34 by cashing unauthorized checks to herself, and entering them as payments to legitimate vendors in the company’s accounting system. She also used company credit cards to make over 1,000 unauthorized personal purchases.

Some of those purchases included over $5,600 on NFL tickets, $50,000 in Amazon purchases, along with plane tickets, and miscellaneous herbs and spices.

Pratt then lied to the victim company when she was confronted on the matter, claiming that the owner had her cash the checks and funnel the money to the owners son. However, Pratt was apparently unaware that the son had already passed away. She also doctored the victim’s financial records, deleting the unauthorized purchases from the credit card statements. She claimed she had just adjusted the statements to make them easier to read.

Pratt also claimed that the misuse of the credit cards was an accident, saying that she clicked the wrong button at checkout every time. The release also says she demanded the widow of the owner of the company pay her a Christmas bonus after she was fired.

A judge sentenced Pratt to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release.