Minnesota woman sentenced for $2.7M embezzlement at surrogacy firm

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Destiny McKayla Combs, 37, was sentenced Wednesday to 51 months in prison for embezzling over $2.7 million from her employer, a surrogacy agency and affiliated law firm, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson says Combs, who served as the Accounting Manager, will also undergo three years of supervised release following her prison term. Prosecutors say Combs exploited her position by using company funds to pay her personal credit card bills, which she racked up due to an online gambling addiction. She disguised these payments as business expenses over a period of 52 months, totaling $2,723,025. “Combs treated her workplace like her own personal slot machine,” said Thompson. “Combs’s crime is part of a disturbing wave of fraud sweeping across Minnesota