Brooke Miller Duck, a former resident of Arnaudville, was sentenced on July 31 by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to 22 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for embezzling more than $500,000 from her medical clinic employer. Duck was also ordered to pay $539,451.41 in restitution.
Duck previously pled guilty on March 16 to using stolen funds from the clinics for personal expenses and luxury items such as expensive vacations, new cars, and high-end consumer products.
“Brooke Duck has now been held fully accountable for years of abusing her position and exploiting her employers’ trust,” said United States Attorney Zachary A. Keller. “With this sentence, justice has been delivered not only for the clinics she stole from, but for all honest, hardworking small businesses across Louisiana. Our Office remains committed to protecting those businesses and prosecuting anyone who seeks to take advantage of them.”
According to court documents, Duck worked at two medical clinics with offices in Lafayette and Baton Rouge where she had access to credit cards and bank accounts belonging to the clinics. Between May 2020 and October 2023, she used the clinics’ credit cards for unauthorized personal purchases, including a $15,000 payment toward a time-share vacation property. She then paid off these balances using funds drawn directly from the clinics’ bank accounts. The total amount embezzled reached $539,451.41 through unauthorized transactions.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service, and Lafayette Police Department; it was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Danny Siefker with assistance from Paralegal Specialist Denise Duhon.