Employee theft is a major problem in the United States. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, employee theft costs businesses between $20 billion and $40 billion a year. No company is 100% safe from employee theft, and neither is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ironically enough.

Jeanie Johnson, a former Chamber of Commerce employee. has been accused of stealing more than $200,000 from the chamber from February 2011 to December 2013.

According to the Daily Herald, Johnson, who was an office manager, receptionist, and finance manager at the chamber, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

“During the past year, much has been done to update the Chamber’s financial processes. With the additional help of outside experts, the Chamber implemented many new controls and processes to secure the Chamber’s financial accounts, information, communications and records,” said an official chamber spokesperson. “While this situation is unfortunate, the Chamber believes it is now stronger and better positioned to succeed as a result.”

In Albany, New York, a corporate accountant admitted in late November to stealing more than $3 million from Cargill Inc., and causing $25 million in losses in grain shipping operations.

Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports that Diane Backis, of Athens, N.Y., pleaded guilty in federal court to mail fraud and filing a false income tax return. Backis transferred customer payments to her own bank accounts over a 10-year period and resulted in the Minnetonka-based agribusiness to lose $25 million.

Backis was a department manager at Cargill’s Albany in the accounting department and handled customer contracts, generating invoices, and payment processing.

Her tax fraud charge is from her 2015 tax return, where she declared an annual income of $61,208, omitting the more than $450,000 she received that year from Cargill customer payments. As part of her guilt plea, she has to pay at least $3.5 million in restitution to Cargill and has to forfeit her house.

Backis will be sentenced in late March and she faces up to 20 years in prison.