Former Daphne Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Almost $500,000
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
April 8, 2026
MOBILE, Ala. A former Daphne business employee who was caught embezzling thousands of dollars from his employer, now faces federal prison time.
Colin David Walsh was the former controller of the business, and he admitted in a plea deal to using company money for unauthorized Christmas bonuses, first-class travel and other personal expenses.
Walsh admitted to paying Christmas bonuses to himself and other employees greater than what the company had authorized. Other personal expenses included first-class plane tickets for Walsh’s wife from Pensacola to Juneau, Alaska, for a whale-watching trip in January 2024; first-class tickets and spa services for his wife at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville in June 2023; and airfare for her to travel to Houston in April 2023.
According to written plea agreement, the total fraud amounted to $478,231.
U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose on Friday set Walsh’s sentencing hearing for July 2. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for theft in connection with health care, although federal prosecutors have agreed to recommend leniency.
Walsh was controller of the company, identified in the plea document as “Business-I.” The business treated cancer patients traveling from Alabama to other states around the Southeast. He admitted that from August 2019 to May 30, 2024, he diverted funds from payments made by Medicare and Medicaid on behalf of the patients.
The plea document indicates that the business uncovered Walsh’s conduct after deciding to look for ways to reduce spending. The company’s executive director asked Walsh in June 2024 for access to the company’s online bank account. Walsh refused, and the company suspended him.
When the business ultimately got into the account, executives discovered that Walsh had hidden his personal expenses on spreadsheets by labeling them as “business expenses.”
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