OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bail has been set at $150,000 for an Omaha woman accused of operating a travel voucher scheme that bilked her employees out of thousands and customers out of more than $1 million.
30-year-old Patricia Urbanovsky also had her passport confiscated Friday at her bond hearing in Douglas County Court.
Urbanovsky faces three felony counts of theft. She faces up to 20 years in prison for each count if convicted.
County Attorney Don Kleine says Urbanovsky ran a scheme through her event-planning business, Creative Creations, to sell discounted Southwest Airlines travel vouchers, which turned out to be unusable.
Kleine says Urbanovsky had three former employees buy $141,000 in vouchers with their personal credit cards, promising to pay them back. When she did, the checks bounced.