Wiseman ordered Rochelle Mendiola Camacho, 27, to start serving her term on Nov. 21, 2011 at the Department of Corrections facility.
She is expected to be released on Sept. 21, 2012. She will be placed on three years’ probation.
Wiseman ordered Camacho to serve her prison term without parole and pay restitution of $21,500.
Camacho will write a letter of apology to Marianas Insurance Co., her former employer.
She will pay a $100 court assessment fee and a probation fee and will complete 50 hours of community work service.
Camacho admitted three counts of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, and three counts of misuse of credit card.
Wiseman sentenced her to one-year imprisonment, all suspended, except for two months for each count. The court imposed a term of 10 months, all suspended, for the last count.
Camacho will serve the sentences consecutively.
The court granted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss the remainder of the 54 criminal charges that included forgery, theft by unlawful taking, identity theft, misuse of credit card, and theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received.
Former Special Assistant Attorney General Joseph J. Przyuski filed the charging documents against Camacho.
In 2009, Camacho used credit card of a MICO client in purchasing items at different stores on Saipan.
Wiseman considered the punitive damages awarded by the superior court against Camacho and her common-law husband Nick San Nicolas Norita Jr. in accepting the plea agreement for this criminal case.
In a separate civil complaint filed by MICO, Presiding Judge Robert Naraja convicted Camacho and Norita after a bench trial on April 7, 2011.
Camacho and Norita were “jointly and severally” ordered to pay $21,133.93 for actual damages for monetary loss; $10,000 actual damages due to damage to MICO’s business relationship and reputation; $5,000 punitive damages; and judgment for cost of suit.
The court granted 9 percent post-judgment interest rate on the total judgment amount.
MICO was represented by attorney Mark A. Scoggins.
The court said Camacho failed to report and deposit cash collections. She failed to report and properly deposit check collections. She improperly reported cash and check collections as credit card transactions. She used MICO client credit cards to settle accounts for other MICO customers.
Camacho’s actions were “sufficiently outrageous to warrant an award of punitive damages,” Naraja ordered.
After Camacho was caught and terminated from her position at MICO, Camacho continued to perpetuate fraud against MICO by using MICO client credit card numbers that she copied or remembered from MICO records in order to purchase large quantities of goods and services from local merchants, Naraja stated.
