Dubai! Kenya! Rikers!
A executive at a Manhattan business consulting firm is going to jail for six months for embezzling nearly $1 million — money she used to travel exotic locales and enjoy Central Park views from her luxury West 57th Street apartment.
Keri Ann Aivazis, 45, pleaded guilty today to grand larceny in Manhattan Supreme Court, and has until July to pay back the $800,000 she still owes OC&C Strategy Consultants, where she was a managing member from 2006 to 2011.
Alvazis admitted re-routing clients’ payments from her firm to herself. The thefts helped finance a lavish lifestyle. Aivazis’ Facebook account includes photos of her and her husband, Michael, scuba diving in the Indian Ocean, visiting Dubai and going on Safari in Kenya.
The pair also enjoyed Central Park views from their apartment in Metropolitan Tower on 57th, which she sold for $1.8 million the year she left her job.
Aivazis and her husband had moved to a spacious industrial loft in downtown LA by the time her thefts caught up to her this year.
“Ms. Aivazis is a wonderful wife, a loving mother and a well-respected business woman,” said her lawyer, Charles Ross. “She simply wants to go on with her life,” he said of Aivazis, a mother of two.
She was one of two women snared on embezzlement charges by Manhattan prosecutors today.
Repeat ID thief Shonda Massey, 38, pleaded not guilty to stealing $60,000 on corporate credit cards at the wealth management firm Evercore, which has offices in Midtown, LA, San Francisco and Minneapolis.
A judge ordered her held in lieu of $1 million bond, given what assistant district attorney Cory Jacobs described as her history of repeatedly forging her identity to hide her past embezzlement convictions from future employers.
She is due back in court April 16.