The former bookkeeper of a Birmingham small business has pleaded guilty to charges that she used a company credit card to accumulate tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses.

Tammi Spangenberg Turner, 60, of Morris, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of wire fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Karon Bowdre.

The maximum penalty for wire fraud is twenty years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and supervised release of up to three years.

According to U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Carlton Peeples, Turner worked for Interiorscapes, which offers plant services to several companies, from 2015 to late 2021.

While overseeing accounts, payroll, and entries in the company’s QuickBooks accounting software, Turner used a company credit card to pay more than $94,000 in personal expenses.

Prosecutors said she hid the charges by creating false entries in QuickBooks, writing personal checks to the company as reimbursement for the charges and keeping copies of those checks in the company records. However, she never deposited the checks in the company’s operating accounts.