A Georgia woman received a prison sentence of more than 16 years on Wednesday for her role in a scheme that stole nearly $10 million from Amazon and for later forging a federal judge’s signature while out on bond.
Brittany Hudson, 40, of Atlanta, was sentenced to 16 years and three months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. A federal jury had previously convicted Hudson on March 13, 2026, of 30 felony offenses, including wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, and forging the signature of a federal judge.
Hudson, who owned a delivery contract business with Amazon, worked alongside her romantic partner, Kayricka Wortham, an operations manager at an Amazon warehouse in Smyrna, Georgia. Between January and June 2022, the pair added dozens of fake vendor profiles to Amazon’s system. Wortham approved the phony vendor accounts and subsequently signed off on more than 1,000 fake invoices for services that were never provided.
The fraudulent billing prompted Amazon to transfer roughly $9.4 million into accounts controlled by Hudson, Wortham, and other co-conspirators. The pair used the money to purchase a residence in Smyrna worth nearly $1 million along with several luxury vehicles, including a 2019 Lamborghini Urus, a 2022 Tesla Model X, a 2018 Porsche Panamera, a 2021 Dodge Durango, and a Kawasaki motorcycle.
“Hudson and her partner engineered a massive fraud scheme against Amazon, stealing nearly $10 million in just a few months,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. “Hudson then showed utter contempt for the law by forging a federal judge’s signature in a failed effort to defraud another company while out on bond. Today’s significant sentence, which must be served without the possibility of parole, holds her accountable for her crime spree.”
Federal authorities originally charged Hudson and Wortham in September 2022. While on pretrial release in January 2023, the two attempted to secure a franchise agreement to open a hookah lounge in Midtown Atlanta. To convince the franchising company that their pending criminal cases were resolved, they submitted fake court paperwork containing forged signatures of former Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. and Cobb County Magistrate Judge Norman L. Barnett, who had served as a prosecutor on the case. Hudson also provided altered bank statements with inflated balances.
“The sentencing in this case brings a brazen fraud operation to its inevitable conclusion – years behind bars for the criminals involved,” said Rob Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service Atlanta Field Office. “Our office remains steadfast in our commitment to uncover fraud, protect victims, and work with our partners at the U.S. Attorney’s Office to bring criminals like this to justice.”
In addition to her prison term, the court ordered Hudson to pay $9,469,731.45 in restitution to Amazon, issued a forfeiture money judgment of $7,859,135.54, and ordered the forfeiture of her Smyrna home and seized bank funds.
Wortham was previously sentenced in June 2023 to 16 years in prison, with an additional consecutive year added in March 2026 after pleading guilty to forging the judge’s signature, bringing her total sentence to 17 years. The United States Secret Service investigated the case.
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