A Brentwood woman yesterday pleaded guilty in federal court to taking more than $400,000 from her employer.

Debrah Wenig, 45, was charged with one count of mail fraud.

She worked as a bookkeeper for Wallace M. Reid Co., an insurance firm in Carrick.

According to prosecutors, Ms. Wenig wrote checks totaling $432,481 to herself and her creditors over a nearly 11-year period from November 1997 to September 2008.

Ms. Wenig admitted forging the signature of her supervisors on the checks that she wrote to herself. She also made false entries in the books to cover what she had done and later destroyed the checks when they were returned from the bank, prosecutors said.

Ms. Wenig will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti on March 18.

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