Overview

• Savannah Sandoval, a former comptroller, has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling more than $670,000 from the Yavapai-Apache Nation.
• Sandoval was also ordered to pay over $650,000 in restitution to the tribe.
• As the comptroller and executive director of the Yavapai-Apache Nation Housing Department, Sandoval had access to housing department credit cards and knowledge of its vendor accounts.
• It was discovered in 2022 that there had been hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases on tribal credit cards.
• On at least 184 occasions, funds were fraudulently transferred by Sandoval into her personal accounts.