A Savannah, Missouri, man was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Monday after he embezzled money from a local school district to purchase Kansas City Chiefs tickets and other personal expenses, prosecutors say.
Anthony Moon, 44, pleaded guilty to one count each of theft from a program receiving federal funds, wire fraud and theft or embezzlement from an employee benefit plan on Jan. 30, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Missouri..
Moon was the accountant for the Savannah R-III School District starting in 2018, the plea agreement said. The man moved to part-time in 2020 when he became the owner and president of Parker & Associates LLC, a tax preparation and bookkeeping firm.
Moon also had another business, A.S. Moon Accounting and Income Tax, that had a business account at a local bank, according to the plea deal.
The plea deal said Moon would enter the school district’s central office after hours, where he would take blank district checks, authorize them with signature stamps of other employees and use computer software to draft them.
Between Jan. 24, 2023, and Nov. 21, 2023, Moon issued seven district checks to himself and his businesses, totaling $63,000, according to the plea deal.
He also used the district checking account to make automated clearing house payments to himself and his wife’s credit card accounts, according to the news release.
The money was used to purchase “Kansas City Chiefs tickets, food, travel, retail, gas and entertainment,” according to the plea agreement.
As the president of his accounting firm, Moon also embezzled funds from employee retirement plans across the span of two years, resulting in “tens of thousands of dollars to be withheld” from employee salaries.
As part of his sentence, a federal judge ordered Moon to pay the Savanna R-III School District nearly $93,000 in restitution, and two employee victims nearly $30,000, according to the press release.
The court also “entered a final order of money judgment forfeiture,” the news release said, of around $122,000.
Moon is ordered to self-surrender on Jan. 8, 2026.