Tiffany Vice President Admits She Swiped Stuff

MANHATTAN (CN) - A former Tiffany vice president pleaded guilty to stealing $2 million of jewelry.

Federal prosecutors filed a one-count criminal information against Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun aka Ingrid Okun, accusing her of interstate transportation of stolen property.

It accuses her of taking more than $5,000 worth of goods jewelry from "an international jewelry company in midtown Manhattan ... where she was employed at the time, to her home in Connecticut."

According to New York City newspaper reports, Okun, 46, claimed some of the jewelry had been lost or stolen, but she actually sold them to an international jewelry dealer.

Okun apologized as she pleaded guilty Friday, according to newspaper reports.

She faces up to 4 years in prison at her Dec. 10 sentencing.

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