A 56-year-old Michigan woman is facing prison after a huge embezzlement scam drained over $2 million from one of the country’s largest family-run RV dealerships.
On Tuesday, Judge Darnella Williams-Claybourne of Wayne County’s 3rd Circuit Court sentenced Susan O’Hara to 30 months to 20 years in prison.
The sentencing comes after O’Hara pleaded guilty in January to three counts of embezzlement exceeding $100,000 and one count of forgery. In addition to the prison sentence, the court ordered O’Hara to repay exactly $2,147,858.55 in restitution to her former employer, General RV Center in Wixom.
The inquiry, which began after the Wixom Police Department reported the case to the state, found that O’Hara used her position at the corporation to manipulate internal systems.
Prosecutors claim she utilized access to client files to write bogus checks under an assumed identity, which she later cashed for her own benefit. The plot resulted in legal charges from the Department of Attorney General in August 2025.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who announced the punishment, underlined the economic cost of such crimes.
“Embezzling from an employer, especially on this scale, can cripple businesses,” Nessel stated. She commended the Wixom Police Department and state prosecutors with winning the conviction and the multimillion-dollar restitution judgment.
O’Hara’s judicial case comes to a close after being under investigation since her arrest last summer.
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