A former Boise Cascade employee has been indicted for 86 counts of wire fraud and nine counts of aggravated identity theft. The scheme is alleged to have defrauded Boise Cascade of over $185,000.

According to the indictment, Carolyn Farrugia-Heaps, 38, worked at Boise Cascade from July 2002 to October 2006. During her employment, she submitted false and fraudulent expense reports to Boise Cascade, causing the company to pay reimbursement for those expenses by direct deposit wire transfers into her personal bank account.

The indictment alleges that over a three-year period, Farrugia-Heaps submitted approximately 117 fraudulent expense reports. She created fictitious expense reports for the purchase of seminars, training programs, and software when in fact she did not purchase the items and did not register for or attend the seminars. On the fraudulent expense reports, Farrugia- Heaps added her supervisor’s signature without his permission or knowledge.

Boise Cascade detected the fraud and reported it to the Boise office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI investigated the case. The United States Attorney’s Office presented the case to the Idaho federal grand jury, which returned the 96 count indictment.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Farrugia-Heaps.