Source: Office of United States Attorneys
SAN FRANCISCO – Tony Archuleta-Perkins, 49, of Palm Springs, was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence.
Archuleta-Perkins, who was indicted in June 2024, pleaded guilty in December 2024 to one count of bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344(2) and one count of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity (money laundering) in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957.
Archuleta-Perkins was hired in 2017 by a San Francisco law firm and eventually became the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of that firm as well as a related law firm. As the CFO, Archuleta-Perkins was in a position of trust and had access to the law firms’ payroll systems and end-to-end payments automation platforms. He used his position to embezzle more than $1 million while he worked at the firms. From 2017 through 2023, Archuleta-Perkins stole more than $1.3 million and used that money for, among other things, improvements to and mortgages on three houses he owned.
Acting United States Attorney Patrick D. Robbins and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani made the announcement.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Corley also sentenced Archuleta-Perkins to a three-year period of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $1,321,752.72.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nikhil Bhagat is prosecuting the case. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the FBI.