Amazon Fraud Defendant Sentenced to 16 Years After $9.4 Million Scheme and Money Laundering Convictions
A federal court in Georgia has sentenced Brittany Hudson to 16 years and three months in prison after a jury convicted her of a nearly $10 million fraud against Amazon and multiple money laundering offences.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced the sentence on August 26, 2026. Hudson, 40, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $9,469,731.45 in restitution to Amazon. The court entered a forfeiture money judgment of $7,859,135.54 and ordered the forfeiture of her Smyrna, Georgia residence and money seized from a bank account as proceeds of the scheme.
More than 1,000 fictitious invoices
According to prosecutors, Hudson owned a delivery business that contracted with Amazon and was in a relationship with Kayricka Wortham, an operations manager at an Amazon warehouse in Smyrna. Wortham had authority to approve new vendors and vendor invoice payments.
From January to June 2022, Hudson, Wortham and co-conspirators created dozens of fake vendors in Amazon’s vendor system and submitted more than 1,000 fictitious invoices for goods and services that had not been provided. Prosecutors said Wortham approved the invoices, causing Amazon to transfer approximately $9.4 million into bank accounts controlled by Hudson, Wortham and others.
The proceeds were then used to acquire high-value assets, including a home worth nearly $1 million, a Lamborghini Urus, Dodge Durango, Tesla Model X, Porsche Panamera and Kawasaki motorcycle.
Money laundering convictions and forfeiture
On March 13, 2026, a jury convicted Hudson of 30 felony offences: two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 17 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, nine counts of money laundering and one count of forging the signature of a federal judge.
While on bond in the original Amazon case, Hudson and Wortham also attempted in January 2023 to obtain a franchise agreement for a hookah lounge. Prosecutors said they falsely claimed the Amazon charges had been dismissed and sent counterfeit court documents bearing forged judicial signatures, along with doctored financial statements showing inflated balances. Their pretrial release was subsequently revoked.
Wortham had previously been sentenced to 16 years in prison and ordered to pay the same restitution amount. She forfeited more than $3 million, the Smyrna home and vehicles purchased with fraudulent proceeds, and later received an additional consecutive one-year sentence for forging a federal judge’s signature.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. The sentencing illustrates how large-scale vendor fraud can move rapidly from false invoicing into bank-account transfers, luxury-asset purchases and criminal-proceeds forfeiture, making payment controls and proceeds tracing central to the financial-crime response.
